POLYMER SCAFFOLDS BEARING AZOBENZENE-POTENTIAL FOR OPTICAL INFORMATION STORAGE

作     者：Sφren Hvilsted P.S.Ramanujam 

作者机构：Danish Polymer Centre Chemical Engineering Department Technical University of Denmark DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby DenmarkOptics and Fluid Dynamics Department Risφ National LaboratoryDK-4000 Roskilde Denmark 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Polymer Science》 (高分子科学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2001年第19卷第2期

页      面：147-153页

核心收录：

学科分类：07[理学] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 070205[理学-凝聚态物理] 08[工学] 080501[工学-材料物理与化学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0703[理学-化学] 0702[理学-物理学] 

主　　题：Azobenzene side-chain polymers Copolymethacrylates Dendrimers Holographic storage LC and amorphous polyesters Morphology Oligopeptides 

摘      要：The fundamental optical storage mechanism of the laser light eddressable azobenzene moiety is briefly introduced.A modular and flexible synthesis design furnishes polyester matrices covalently integrating cyanoazobenzene in regularlyspaced side chains. Thin films of these materials are particularly well suited for holographic storape. Notable figures of meritsof liquid crystalline polyesters are response time to blue-green laser light of the order of nanoseconds, storage capacityexpressed as 5000 lines/mm, and high, permanent (almost nine years) diffraction efficiency of the order of 50% or greater,and erasability, The implications of the main chain nature for polyester morphology and for the permanency of the inducedanisotropy are discussed, The design and methods of preparation of other significantly different polymer scaffolds supportingcyanoazobenzene are elaborated. Oligopeptides always result in amorphous materials, whereas copolymethacrylates anddendritic or hyperbranched polyesters provide some materials that exhibit liquid crystallinity. However, none of these scaffolds affords materials that result in permanent anisotropy when exposed to interfering laser light.