Laser-induced mechanical bending in azo dye-doped liquid-crystal elastomers



Título del documento: Laser-induced mechanical bending in azo dye-doped liquid-crystal elastomers
Revista: Superficies y vacío
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000396212
ISSN: 1665-3521
Autores: 1
2
3
Instituciones: 1Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Facultad de Medicina, Toluca, Estado de México. México
2Kent State University, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent, Ohio. Estados Unidos de América
3University of Freiburg, Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry, Freiburg, Baden-Wurttemberg. Alemania
Año:
Periodo: Sep
Volumen: 19
Número: 3
Paginación: 30-34
País: México
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico
Resumen en inglés Laser-induced deformation (bending) in azo dye-doped liquid-crystal elastomer thick films is demonstrated. We directly measure the laser-power-dependent deformation-strength (driving force). The deformation-relaxation time is also measured. We have observed that it recovers within 300 ms after the excitation laser pulse is gone, this gave a constant time of 75 ms. By estimating the optical electric field value of the laser pulses used in our experiments, we can compare our results with those obtained in polyurethane elastomers studied by the electrostriction technique [1,9]
Disciplinas: Física y astronomía,
Química
Palabras clave: Física,
Química de polímeros,
Polímeros,
Elastómeros,
Cristales líquidos
Keyword: Physics and astronomy,
Chemistry,
Physics,
Polymer chemistry,
Polymers,
Elastomers,
Liquid crystals
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