title: Molecular photo-oscillators based on highly accelerated heterocyclic azo dyes in nematic liquid crystals.
abstract: 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).
authors.affiliation: Grup de Materials Orgànics, Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (IN2UB), Departament de Química Orgànica, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, E-08028, Barcelona, Spain. dvelasco@ub.edu.
authors.forename: Jaume
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Garcia-Amorós
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reig
authors.forename: M Cidália R
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Castro
authors.forename: Alba
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cuadrado
authors.forename: M Manuela M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Raposo
authors.forename: Dolores
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Velasco