Photoinduced Optical Anisotropy in Amorphous Films of Liquid Crystalline Polymers
- 1 August 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
- Vol. 253 (1), 1-10
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10587259408055238
Abstract
Amorphous, optically isotropic films of photochromic liquid crystalline copolymers have been prepared and irradiated with linearly polarized light. In this way high values of dichroism and birefringence have been induced.Keywords
This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
- Recent developments in aromatic azo polymers researchChemistry of Materials, 1993
- Azo polymers for reversible optical storage. 1. Poly[4'-[[2-(acryloyloxy)ethyl]ethylamino]-4-nitroazobenzene]Macromolecules, 1992
- An infrared spectroscopic study of photo-induced reorientation in dye containing liquid-crystalline polymersLiquid Crystals, 1992
- Large photoinduced birefringence in an optically nonlinear polyester polymerApplied Physics Letters, 1991
- Molecular addressing? Studies on light-induced reorientation in liquid-crystalline side chain polymersLiquid Crystals, 1991
- Angular-dependent photoselection and anisotropy of optical absorption for photochromic molecules in glassy poly(methyl methacrylate)Molecular Physics, 1989
- Reversible digital and holographic optical storage in polymeric liquid crystalsDie Makromolekulare Chemie, Rapid Communications, 1987
- Polymere als Träger und Speicher von InformationenBerichte der Bunsengesellschaft für physikalische Chemie, 1985