Synthesis, characterization and photorientation of azo compounds based on epoxy monomers

SAIZ, L.; OROFINO, A.; ARENAS, G; GALANTE, M. J.; OYANGUREN, P. A.

Natal (Brazil)

Congreso; VI Brazilian MRS Meeting; 2007

Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa em Materiais

Polymers containing azobenzene units are of special interest due to the reversibility of their photorientation. Possible applications of these materials are in the fields of optical information storage, information processing, optical switching devices, and others. The objective of this work is to synthesize,characterize and determine photorientation of epoxy polymers containing azobenzene groups covalently bonded in order to obtain final materials that would exhibit reversible optical anisotropy.