Synthesis and Characterization of Azo Compounds Based on Epoxy Monomers

L. SAIZ; P. A. OYANGUREN; M. J. GALANTE

Río de Janeiro (Brasil)

Congreso; World Polymer Congress, Macro 2006; 2006

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 and characterize epoxy polymers containing azobenzene groups covalently bonded in order to obtain final materials that would exhibit reversible optical anisotropy.