Photocrosslinkable liquid crystalline polymer

Liquid Crystal Diffraction Gratings Using Photocrosslinkable Liquid Crystalline Polymer Films as Alignment Layers... 

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Research Focus Synthesis of liquid crystalline interpenetrating polymer networks using photocrosslinkable mesogenic monomers. 

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Cervera-Procas R, Sanchez-Somolinos C, Serrano JL, Omenat A (2013) A polymer network prepared by the tyol-yne photocrosslinking of a liquid crystalline dendrimer. Macromol Rapid Commun 34 498-503... 

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