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Unusual reversible photomechanical actuation in polymer/nanotube composites
Xuemei Sun1, Wei Wang, Longbin Qiu
1State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|July 12, 2012
Abstract:
An azobenzene-containing liquid crystalline polymer/carbon nanotube composite strip was synthesized that shows rapid and reversible deformation under UV irradiation. The aligned nanotubes also provide the composite with much higher mechanical strength than pure liquid crystalline polymers and a very high electrical conductivity.
