Photomobile polymer materials—various three-dimensional movements

Munenori Yamada; Mizuho Kondo; Ryo Miyasato; Yumiko Naka; Jun-ichi Mamiya; Motoi Kinoshita; Atsushi Shishido; Yanlei Yu; Christopher J. Barrett; Tomiki Ikeda

doi:10.1039/B815289F

Photomobile polymer materials—various three-dimensional movements†

Munenori Yamada,^a Mizuho Kondo,^a Ryo Miyasato,^a Yumiko Naka,^a Jun-ichi Mamiya,^a Motoi Kinoshita,^a Atsushi Shishido,^a Yanlei Yu,^b Christopher J. Barrett^c and Tomiki Ikeda*^a

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^a Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, R1-11, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Japan
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^b Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai, China

^c Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

The composition of a crosslinked azobenzene liquid-crystalline polymer and a flexible polymer film can provide a variety of simple devices that can walk in one direction like an ‘inchworm’ and move like a ‘robotic arm’ induced by light.

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Photomobile polymer materials—various three-dimensional movements†

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