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Can sunlight drive the photoinduced bending of polymer films?

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

Journal of Materials Chemistry · 2009 · 132 citations · 21 references

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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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Directed bending of a polymer film by light

Yanlei Yu, Makoto Nakano, Tomiki Ikeda · Nature · 2003 · 2.1K citations · Full text

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A New Opto-Mechanical Effect in Solids

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Photomobile Polymer Materials: Towards Light‐Driven Plastic Motors

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Fast liquid-crystal elastomer swims into the dark

Miguel A. Camacho‐López, Heino Finkelmann, Peter Palffy‐Muhoray et al. · Nature Materials · 2004 · 987 citations

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Nanomotor rotates microscale objects

Rienk Eelkema, Michael M. Pollard, Javier Vicario et al. · Nature · 2006 · 859 citations · Full text

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