Paper Title:

Synthesis,Properties and Application in Optical Memory of a Novel Photochromic Diarylethene Bearing a Six-Membered Aryl Unit

Periodical Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 295 - 297)
Main Theme Manufacturing Science and Technology
Edited by Pengcheng Wang, Liqun Ai, Yungang Li, Xiaoming Sang and Jinglong Bu
Pages 232-235
DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.295-297.232
Citation Zhi Peng Tong et al., 2011, Advanced Materials Research, 295-297, 232
Online since July, 2011
Authors Zhi Peng Tong, Gang Liu, Shi Qiang Cui, Wei Jun Liu
Keywords Diarylethene, Optical Storage, Photochromism
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Abstract

A new unsymmetrical photochromic diarylethene 1-(2-ethyl-3-benzothienyl)-2-[2-octyl-5-formyl-3-thienyl]perfluorocyclopentene (1a) has been synthesized. Its photochromic properties in solution and PMMA film were investigated. Diarylethene 1a changed the color from colorless to blue upon irradiation with 297 nm UV light, in which absorption maxima were observed at 581 nm in hexane and at 582 nm in PMMA film, The results demonstrated that it can be potentially used as polarization holographic optical recording medium.