Densely cross-linked liquid crystal networks by controlled photopolymerization of ordered liquid crystal monomers: Properties and applications

Cross-Linked Liquid Crystalline Systems: From Rigid Polymer Networks to Elastomers

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3-47

  Lub, Johan ^a   Broer, Dirk J ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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