Molecular photo-oscillators based on highly accelerated heterocyclic azo dyes in nematic liquid crystals
2014; Royal Society of Chemistry; Volume: 50; Issue: 51 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1039/c4cc01450b
ISSN1364-548X
AutoresJaume García‐Amorós, Marta Reig, M. Cidália R. Castro, Alba Cuadrado, M. Manuela M. Raposo, Dolores Velasco,
Tópico(s)Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies
ResumoBenzothiazole-pyrrole-based azo dyes greatly enhance their thermal isomerisation rate by up to 160 times when they are under the influence of the nematic mean field yielding the LC-based photochromic oscillators with the highest oscillation frequencies reported so far (2.6 kHz at 298 K).
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