Solar thermal fuels (STFs) harvest and store solar energy in a closed cycle system through
conformational change of molecules and can release the energy in the form of heat on …

The work focuses on recent developments of the rapidly evolving field of Non-conventional
Liquid Crystals. After a concise introduction it discusses the most promising research such …

A large optical nonlinearity has been observed for the photo-responsive liquid crystals under
the condition that the nematic phase is close to the isotropic condition. The direct …

Azobenzene‐doped glassy polyimides (azo‐polyimides) offer some of the most efficient
optomechanical power densities to date rivaling electrostrictive polymers. Despite such …

A comparative study of the photo-optical properties and the photo-orientation processes in
thin films of the bent-shaped azobenzene-containing compounds with different molecular …

The ability to produce large‐scale, reversible structural changes in a variety of materials by
photoexcitation of a wide variety of azobenzene derivatives has been recognized for almost …

Azobenzene liquid-crystal networks (LCNs) are well known for their photo-deformation,
shrinking in UV light, and reverting to their original shape in visible light. Such reversible …

The cis profile of azobenzene is a key factor in predicting the photodeformation of the
nematic azobenzene liquid crystal network (LCN). An ab initio based method for predicting …

Phase transition dynamics of liquid crystal (LC) was measured by the heterodyne transient
grating (HD-TG) method to clarify the difference between the photochemical and …

By using the depth selective imaging method, we studied the UV induced change in a
photomobile liquid crystalline polymer film. With 1 μm depth resolution, each slice inside the …