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Topography from Topology: Photoinduced Surface Features Generated in Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

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Synthesis of Reactive Azobenzene Main-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers via Michael Addition Polymerization and Photomechanical Effects of Their Supramolecular Hydrogen-Bonded Fibers

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Recent advances towards azobenzene-based light-driven real-time information-transmitting materials

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Light-Induced Formation of Dynamic and Permanent Surface Topologies in Chiral–Nematic Polymer Networks

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Kinetic study of the fast thermal cis-to-trans isomerisation of para-, ortho- and polyhydroxyazobenzenes

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Three-Dimensional Photomobility of Crosslinked Azobenzene Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Fibers

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Printed artificial cilia from liquid-crystal network actuators modularly driven by light

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Photomobile Polymer Materials: Towards Light-Driven Plastic Motors

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Bending Dynamics and Directionality Reversal in Liquid Crystal Network Photoactuators

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