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Liquid Crystals Volume 36, 2009 - Issue 10-11: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Commemoration
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Photomechanical properties of azobenzene liquid-crystalline elastomers

Mizuho Kondo Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, R1–11, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226–8503, Japan
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Ryo Miyasato Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, R1–11, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226–8503, Japan
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Yumiko Naka Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, R1–11, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226–8503, Japan
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Jun-ichi Mamiya Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, R1–11, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226–8503, Japan
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Motoi Kinoshita Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, R1–11, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226–8503, Japan
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Yanlei Yu Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai, 200433, China
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Christopher J. Barrett Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2K6, Canada
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Tomiki Ikeda Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, R1–11, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226–8503, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1289-1293 | Received 01 Jun 2009, Accepted 18 Jun 2009, Published online: 18 Nov 2009

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