Outlook of Photochromic Materials

Although photochromic polymers are an important class of materials with many potential applications, and many excellent studies were devoted to this topic, recent 

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The authors are grateful to numerous industrial sponsors for funding this research. Also, partial support from ONR and NSF is acknowledged. 

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