Open AccessLessons learned from research on photorefractive polymers and molecular materials
Author(s) -
Yu Luping
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of polymer science part a: polymer chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.768
H-Index - 152
eISSN - 1099-0518
pISSN - 0887-624X
DOI - 10.1002/pola.1232
Subject(s) - photorefractive effect , polymer , polymer science , materials science , photoconductivity , nanotechnology , polymer chemistry , optoelectronics , composite material
Organic photorefractive (PR) materials are a new kind of electrooptic substance that emerged 10 years ago. These are very complicated materials that possess both electrooptic effects and photoconductivity. It is challenging to integrate these properties into a single polymer system that will exhibit this PR effect. This article highlights our efforts in the past nine years in synthesizing and characterizing fully functionalized organic PR materials. I emphasize the lessons we have learned from this research, which may be more valuable to those who are interested in this area. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 39: 2557–2564, 2001