Synthesis and characterization of azo compound based on epoxy monomers

SÁIZ LUCIANA; OYANGUREN PATRICIA; GALANTE M. JOSÉ

Río de Janeiro - Brasil

Congreso; World Polymer Congress - 41th International Symposium on Macromolecules; 2006

Brazilian Polymer Association - Polymer Division IUPAC

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.