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Macromol. Rapid Commun. 20/2014
Author(s) -
Inadomi Takumi,
Ikeda Shogo,
Okumura Yasushi,
Kikuchi Hirotsugu,
Miyamoto Nobuyoshi
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
macromolecular rapid communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1521-3927
pISSN - 1022-1336
DOI - 10.1002/marc.201470074
Subject(s) - materials science , electric field , anisotropy , shrinkage , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , polymer chemistry , optics , composite material , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering
Back Cover: Poly‐( N ‐isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPA) hydrogel films doped with uniaxially aligned liquid crystalline nanosheets are synthesized with the help of an electric field. The gels are printed with a photo‐responsive dye pattern with μm‐scale resolution. The photo‐irradiated gel shows temporal expansion along one direction followed by anisotropic shrinkage, which is an anomalous behavior for a conventional PNIPA gel. Further details can be found in the article by T. Inadomi, S. Ikeda, Y. Okumura, H. Kikuchi, and N. Miyamoto* on page 1741.