Photomobile Polymer Materials with Double Network Structures: Crosslinked Azobenzene Liquid-Crystalline Polymer/Methacrylate Composites

Authors :: Tomiki Ikeda
Kiyohide Takado
Toru Ube
Source :: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals. 601:43-48
Publication Year :: 2014
Publisher :: Informa UK Limited, 2014.
Abstract: We prepared photomobile polymer materials composed of crosslinked azobenzene liquid-crystalline polymers (LCPs) and methacrylates with interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) structures, and explored their photoresponsive behavior. The IPN films exhibited reversible bending upon photoirradiation. In addition, the durability of the IPN films was much higher than that of the pristine crosslinked azobenzene LCP films.

Subjects :: chemistry.chemical_classification
Materials science
Photoisomerization
Liquid crystalline
Double network
General Chemistry
Polymer
Bending
Condensed Matter Physics
Methacrylate
chemistry.chemical_compound
Azobenzene
chemistry
General Materials Science
Interpenetrating polymer network
Composite material

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