Photo-Actuation of Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Materials Doped with Visible Absorber Dyes under Quasi-Daylight
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عنوان ژورنال: Polymers
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2073-4360
DOI: 10.3390/polym12010054