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Can sunlight drive the photoinduced bending of polymer films?

DOI

132

Citations

21

References

2009

Year

Ruoyuan Yin, Wanxian Xu, Mizuho Kondo, Chu-Chun Yen, Jun‐ichi Mamiya, Tomiki Ikeda, Yanlei Yu
Journal of Materials Chemistry

Abstract

Photoinduced bending and unbending behavior of crosslinked liquid-crystalline polymers containing azotolane moieties in side chains occurred upon irradiation with sunlight, according to the trans–cisphotoisomerization of the azotolane moieties.

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