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Photoinduced motions in azo-containing polymers.
Almeria Natansohn,Paul Rochon +1 more
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This article is published in Chemical Reviews.The article was published on 2002-10-17. It has received 2053 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Polymer.read more
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Synthetic molecular motors and mechanical machines.
TL;DR: The exciting successes in taming molecular-level movement thus far are outlined, the underlying principles that all experimental designs must follow, and the early progress made towards utilizing synthetic molecular structures to perform tasks using mechanical motion are highlighted.
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Artificial Molecular Machines
TL;DR: The latest generations of sophisticated synthetic molecular machine systems in which the controlled motion of subcomponents is used to perform complex tasks are discussed, paving the way to applications and the realization of a new era of “molecular nanotechnology”.
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Future perspectives and recent advances in stimuli-responsive materials
TL;DR: It is the goal to emphasize underutilized adaptive behaviors of stimuli-responsive polymers so that novel applications and new generations of smart materials can be realized.
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Soft Actuators for Small-Scale Robotics.
TL;DR: A detailed survey of ongoing methodologies for soft actuators, highlighting approaches suitable for nanometer- to centimeter-scale robotic applications, including both the development of new materials and composites, as well as novel implementations leveraging the unique properties of soft materials.
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TD-DFT Performance for the Visible Absorption Spectra of Organic Dyes: Conventional versus Long-Range Hybrids
TL;DR: By using a calibration curve, it is found that the LR functionals systematically allow an even more consistent description of the low-lying excited-state energies than the conventional hybrids.
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Optical Switching and Image Storage by Means of Azobenzene Liquid-Crystal Films
Tomiki Ikeda,Osamu Tsutsumi +1 more
TL;DR: Trans-cis photoisomerization of azobenzene with a laser pulse resulted in a nematic-to-isotropic phase transition with a rapid optical response of 200 microseconds.
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Light-driven motion of liquids on a photoresponsive surface
TL;DR: The light-driven motion of a fluid substance in a surface-modified glass tube suggests potential applicability to microscale chemical process systems.
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Second-order nonlinearity in poled-polymer systems
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