Photoresponsive Polymers II

Over the past 25 years or so there has been a revolution in the devel- mentoffunctionalpolymers. Whilemanypolymersascommoditiesrepresent huge markets, new materials with a high degree of functionality have been developed. Such specialty polymers play important roles in our day-to-day lives. The current volumes 213 and 214 of Advances in Polymer Science focus on photoresponsive polymers. In particular polymers that can either change the properties of a beam of light that passes through them or who change their properties in response to light. Volume 213 starts with an introd- tion to two-photon absorption by Rumi, Barlow, Wang, Perry, and Marder. In this chapter they develop the basic concepts of two-photon absorption, and describe structure property relationships for a variety of symmetrical and unsymmetrical molecules. The applications of these materials in 3D - crofabrication of polymers, metals, and oxide materials are detailed in the chapterentitled Two-PhotonAbsorberandTwo-PhotonInduced Chemistry contributed by the same group of authors. Then Bel?eld, Bondar, and Yao describe the molecules, dendrimers, oligomers, and polymers that can be - cited by two-photonabsorption and their application in processing materials with three-dimensional spatial control in their chapter entitled Two-Photon Absorbing Photonic Materials. Speci?cally they describe the development of symmetrical and polar conjugated materials for two-photon absorption and their use as photo-initiatorsfor3D microfabrication. Juodkazis,Mizeikis, and Misawaalsoexploremultiphotonprocessingofmaterials intheirchapter,and provide more focus on the processing aspects of these materials and discuss thestate-of-the-artinresolution.

List of contents

Polymer Solar Cells.- Energy Harvesting in Synthetic Dendrimer Materials.- Excitonically Coupled Oligomers and Dendrimers for Two-Photon Absorption.

Product details

• Assisted by: Lee (Editor), Lee (Editor), Kwang-Sup Lee (Editor), Set Marder (Editor), Seth Marder (Editor), Seth R. Marder (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2010
• EAN: 9783642088957
• ISBN: 978-3-642-08895-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 12 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 341 g
• Illustrations: XII, 208 p.
• Series: Advances in Polymer Science; Advances in Polymer Science
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering; Laser, C, Chemistry and Materials Science, polymers, Lasers, Optical and Electronic Materials, Polymer Sciences, Materials / States of matter, Optical physics, Electronic materials, Electronic devices & materials, Optical Materials, Physical Chemistry, Photonics, Applied optics, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Amorphous substances, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Complex fluids