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Photoactive dimesogen having different pathways of light driven phase transitions at different temperatures
V Ajay Mallia1, Nobuyuki Tamaoki
1Nanotechnology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|November 16, 2004
Abstract:
We hereby describe a novel example of light driven phase transitions in a photoresponsive dimesogen, which goes through different pathways at different temperatures. The isomer ratios required to obtain the phase transition in each case have also been determined.