Liquid Crystals: Fast‐and‐Giant Photorheological Effect in a Liquid Crystal Dimer (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 9/2019)
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Abstract
In article number 1802032 Satoshi Aya, Fumito Araoka, Antal Jákli, and coworkers demonstrate that a liquid crystal dimer can work as a switchable photorheological material between a solid (shown in orange) and liquid crystal (blue) states by shining a ultraviolet (UV) light (purple). The photorheological switching is based on a geometrical variation in the molecular shape of the dimer. In the image, shown are a solid state at its straight molecular shape and a liquid crystal state at its double kinked shape, which is caused by an illumination of a UV light.
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RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) 2‐1 Hirosawa Wako Saitama 351‐0198 Japan
Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics Wigner Research Center for Physics Hungarian Academy of Sciences P. O. Box 49 Budapest H‐1525 Hungary
Department of Chemistry School of Natural and Computing Sciences University of Aberdeen Aberdeen UK
Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute Kent State University Kent OH 44242 USA
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