Mechanical properties and peculiarities of molecular crystals

WM Awad, DW Davies, D Kitagawa… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last century, molecular crystals functioned predominantly as a means for determining
the molecular structures via X-ray diffraction, albeit as the century came to a close the …

Mechanically responsive organic crystals by light

H Koshima, S Hasebe, Y Hagiwara… - Israel Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanically responsive molecular crystals that exhibit macroscopic motions such as
bending, twisting, and locomotion by light and heat have been studied intensively over the …

Excellent photo actuation in crystal-polymer composite by transfer of mechanical energy

M Singh, VG Abhijitha, BRK Nanda, D Pareek… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Transfer of strong photomechanical effect from dynamic crystals to hybrid polymer composite
is an evolving field of research and holds high potential for actuation and photo-switch …

Optically tunable diffraction efficiency by photo-mobile holographic composite polymer material

DE Lucchetta, A Di Donato, G Singh, A Tombesi… - Optical Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
We report on the fabrication and optical characterization of one-dimensional transmission
holographic volume phase gratings written on a novel holographic composite mixture. The …

Optically Tunable Diffraction Efficiency in Reflection Grating Written in Photomobile Polymers

R Castagna, A Di Donato, O Francescangeli… - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this work, we report the fabrication and optical characterization of a one-dimensional
reflection holographic volume phase grating recorded in a recently developed holographic …

Fabrication and performance of light-driven actuator for long term and omnidirectional photothermal converter

J Cui, Q Niu, H Wang, J Zhang, X Wang - Journal of Materials Science …, 2023 - Springer
The traditional photothermal converters had the problem of energy density loss when
absorbing oblique incidence light. In this paper, we prepared an intelligent responsive light …