Shape-Persistent Actuators from Hydrazone Photoswitches

Ryabchun, A; Li, Q; Lancia, F; Aprahamian, I; Katsonis, N

Katsonis, N (reprint author), Univ Twente, MESA Inst Nanotechnol, Bioinspired & Smart Mat, POB 207, NL-7500 AE Enschede, Netherlands.; Aprahamian, I (reprint author), Dartmouth Coll, Dept Chem, 6128 Burke Lab, Hanover, NH 03755 USA.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2019; 141 (3): 1196

Abstract

Interfacing molecular photoswitches with liquid crystal polymers enables the amplification of their nanoscale motion into macroscopic shape transforma......

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