Photo-responsive properties of azobenzene small molecules in sol-gel hybrid TiO2/ormosil organic-inorganic matrices

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 480-485

  Que, Wenxiu ^a   Hu, X ^b   Xia, X L ^b   Zhao, L ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; IRRADIATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONS; SOL-GELS;

ACID-CATALYZED SOLUTIONS; ORGANIC-INORGANIC MATRICES; SOL-GEL HYBRID; TRANS-CIS-TRANS PHOTOISOMERIZATION;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33846549971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.000480     Document Type: Article

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