Journal article
Opto-mechanical effect in photoactive nematic side-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers.
- Sánchez-Ferrer A Food and Soft Materials Science Group, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland. antoni.sanchez@agrl.ethz.ch.
- Merekalov A
- Finkelmann H
- 2011-04-12
Published in:
- Macromolecular rapid communications. - 2011
English
The mechanical behaviour of monodomain nematic side-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers containing azoderivatives as pendant groups or crosslinkers has been studied under UV irradiation and in the darkness at different temperatures. From the evaluation of the opto-mechanical experiments, the mechanical efficiency, kinetic rates, activation energies and the isomerization mechanism of the azocompounds in the liquid-crystalline matrix could be determined, as well as the effect of the chemical constitution of the azobenzene derivatives and their role in the elastomeric network.
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- English
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- DOI 10.1002/marc.201100005
- PMID 21480426
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/217146
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