Optical suppression of ferroelectricity in polysiloxane copolymers with chiral and photochromic side groups

Polymers for Advanced Technologies

Volumn 9, Issue 10-11, 1998, Pages 665-671

  Meier, Johann Georg ^a   Stumpe, Joachim ^a   Fischer, Birgit ^b   Thieme, Cathrin ^b   Fischer, Thomas M ^b   Kremer, Friedrich ^b   Öge, Tanja ^c   Zentel, Rudolf ^c  

^a Institute of Thin Film Technology and Microsensorics   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Azobenzene; Chromic polysiloxane; Ferroelectricity; Light induced phase transition; Photo; Photoisomerization

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; COPOLYMERS; FERROELECTRICITY; ISOMERIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

AZOBENZENE; INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; LIGHT INDUCED PHASE TRANSITION; OPTICAL SUPPRESSION; PHOTOCHROMIC POLYSILOXANE; PHOTOINDUCED MODIFICATION;

SILICONES;

EID: 0032178609     PISSN: 10427147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1581(1998100)9:10/11<665::AID-PAT839>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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