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Two merocyanine dyes are assembled by multiple hydrogen bonds with summation of their dipole moments (see formula; R=2-ethylhexyl). It exhibits a strongly increased degree of dye alignment in an electric field according to electrooptical absorption spectroscopy.
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Würthner et al. (2006) studied this question.
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