Azo Polymers: Synthesis, Functions and Applications

✍ Scribed by Xiaogong Wang (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 238
• Series: Soft and Biological Matter
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores functional polymers containing aromatic azo chromophores in side-chain, main-chain and other parts of their structures, known as azo polymers and which share common photoresponsive properties. It focuses on the molecular architecture of azo polymers, the synthetic methods and their most important functions, such as photoinduced birefringence and dichroism, surface-relief-grating (SRG) formation, and light-driven deformation of liquid crystal elastomers. It combines a general survey of the subject and in-depth discussions of each topic, including numerous illustrations, figures, and photographs. Offering a balance between an introduction to the core concepts and a snapshot of hot and emerging topics, it is of interest to graduate students and researchers working in this and related fields.

Xiaogong Wang is a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Trans–Cis Isomerization....Pages 19-56
Azo Polymer Syntheses....Pages 57-115
Photoinduced Orientation and Anisotropy....Pages 117-149
Photoinduced Mass Transport....Pages 151-195
Photoresponsive Liquid Crystal Elastomers....Pages 197-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-230

✦ Subjects

Polymer Sciences;Optical and Electronic Materials;Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics;Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices