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High-Contrast and Fast Photorheological Switching of a Twist-Bend Nematic Liquid Crystal
Published on: October 31, 2019
Photochemically reversible liquefaction and solidification of single compounds based on a sugar alcohol scaffold with
Haruhisa Akiyama1, Masaru Yoshida
1Nanosystem Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial, Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. h.akiyama@aist.go.jp
Abstract:
Sugar alcohol derivatives with multi azobenzene arms are photochemically and isothermally liquefied from a powdered solid upon irradiation with ultraviolet light at room temperature, and then solidified on irradiation with visible light, where the transition between solid and liquid are reversible. These compounds possess similar chemical structures to comb-like liquid crystalline oligomers.
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