Holographic nanoparticle-polymer composites based on step-growth thiol-ene photopolymerization

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 207-222

  Hata, Eiji ^a   Mitsube, Ken ^a   Momose, Keisuke ^a   Tomita, Yasuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DITHIOLS; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH TRANSPARENCY; HIGH-ELECTRON-DENSITY; HOLOGRAPHIC DATA STORAGE; MATERIAL SENSITIVITY; ORGANIC NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOCALORIMETRY; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION KINETICS; POLYMER COMPOSITE; POLYMERIZATION SHRINKAGE; REFRACTIVE INDEX MODULATION; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; STEP-GROWTH POLYMERIZATIONS; THIOL-ENE PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; THIOL-ENES; VISIBLE LIGHT; VOLUME HOLOGRAPHIC; VOLUME HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDINGS;

COAGULATION; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CURING; ETHERS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GELATION; GROWTH KINETICS; HOLOGRAMS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MONOMERS; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RIGID STRUCTURES; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; DIGITAL STORAGE; POLYMERIZATION; SHRINKAGE; SILICA; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

POLYMERIZATION; SILICA NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84862149187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.000207     Document Type: Article

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