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Photochemical tuning of the helical structure of cholesteric liquid crystals by photoisomerization of chiral azobenzenes, and their structural effects

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Pages 1285-1291 | Received 24 Nov 2003, Accepted 04 Jun 2004, Published online: 21 May 2010

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