Photoinduced Plasticity in Cross‐Linked Liquid Crystalline Networks

Photoinduced deformation of crosslinked liquid-crystalline polymer film oriented by a highly aligned carbon nanotube sheet.

Photoinduced phase transitions in liquid crystalline systems

In recent years, a field of research that is growing steadily is the photoinduced phenomenon in which the incident light itself brings about molecular ordering/ disordering of the liquid crystalline system. This particular aspect of photonics, in which light can be controlled by light as a stimulus, is being proposed as the future technology for high-speed information processing and photochromi...

Photoinduced Molecular Reorientation and Relaxation in a Liquid Crystalline Polymer

In this paper we present a study of photoinduced eeects, including molecular relaxation in a side chain liquid crystalline polymer. In particular, we have studied relaxation phenomena using Ellipsometry and Photoinduced Birefringence in pump-probe experiments, which were carried out as a function of temperature, optical pump intensity and sample preparation and history. Two speciic areas were i...

Photoinduced isothermal phase transitions of liquid-crystalline macrocyclic azobenzenes.

Liquid-crystalline macrocyclic compounds, tethered by two or three azobenzenes bearing alkoxy side chains, exhibit isothermal phase transitions from liquid-crystal to isotropic as well as from crystal to isotropic phases upon light irradiation due to the drastic conformational change of their macrocyclic backbone.

Effect of heat and film thickness on a photoinduced phase transition in azobenzene liquid crystalline polyesters