Precise Actuation of Bilayer Photomechanical Films Coated with Molecular Azobenzene Chromophores

Light-Directing Chiral Liquid Crystal Nanostructures: From 1D to 3D

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High-Resolution 3D Direct Laser Writing for Liquid-Crystalline Elastomer Microstructures

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Photomobile Polymer Materials with Crosslinked Liquid-Crystalline Structures: Molecular Design, Fabrication, and Functions

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Organic Photomechanical Materials

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Reversible Near-Infrared Light Directed Reflection in a Self-Organized Helical Superstructure Loaded with Upconversion Nanoparticles

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Red, Green and Blue Reflections Enabled in an Optically Tunable Self-Organized 3D Cubic Nanostructured Thin Film

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Liquid-Crystalline Nano-optomechanical Actuator

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Photomechanical response of disperse red 1 azobenzene dye-doped PMMA polymer fiber

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(2013) Francesco Greco et al.   Soft Matter

Recent advances in photoresponsive liquid-crystalline polymers containing azobenzene chromophores

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Autonomous, Hands-Free Shape Memory in Glassy, Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks

(2012) Kyung Min Lee et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Light-Driven Chiral Molecular Switches or Motors in Liquid Crystals

(2012) Yan Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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(2012) Jun-ichi Mamiya   POLYMER JOURNAL

Photocontrollable Liquid-Crystalline Actuators

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Photomechanical bending of 4-aminoazobenzene crystals

(2011) Hideko Koshima et al.   DYES AND PIGMENTS

Distinguishing the parallel and vertical orientations and optic axis characteristics determination of azobenzene mesogen by conoscopic polarized microscopy

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Photomechanical Response of Glassy Azobenzene Polyimide Networks

(2011) David H. Wang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Wrinkled Liquid-Crystalline Microparticle-Enhanced Photoresponse of PDLC-Like Films by Coupling with Mechanical Stretching

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(2011) Arri Priimagi et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Visible light induced bending and unbending behavior of crosslinked liquid-crystalline polymer films containing azotolane moieties

(2010) Futao Cheng et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Mechanical Motion of Azobenzene Crystals upon Photoirradiation

(2009) Hideko Koshima et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis of a Photoresponsive Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Containing Azobenzene

(2009) Chensha Li et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Switching the ligand-exchange reactivities of chloro-bridged cyclopalladated azobenzenes for the colorimetric sensing of thiocyanate

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Photomobile Polymer Materials: Towards Light-Driven Plastic Motors

(2008) Munenori Yamada et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photomobile polymer materials—various three-dimensional movements

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