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Photomobile polymer materials: photoresponsive behavior of cross-linked liquid-crystalline polymers with mesomorphic

Jun-ichi Mamiya1, Akito Kuriyama, Naoki Yokota

  • 1Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, R1-12, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503 (Japan), Fax: (+81) 45-924-5275. jmamiya@polymer.res.titech.ac.jp.

Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|January 13, 2015
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Keywords:
actuatorsliquid crystalsphotochromismphotomechanical effectspolymers

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