Molecular photo-oscillators based on highly accelerated heterocyclic azo dyes in nematic liquid crystals.
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Benzothiazole-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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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Chemical communications
دوره 50 51 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014