Novel polydiacetylenes for optical materials: beyond the conventional polydiacetylenes

Abhijit Sarkar; Shuji Okada; Hiroshi Matsuzawa; Hiro Matsuda; Hachiro Nakanishi

doi:10.1039/A907438D

You do not have JavaScript enabled. Please enable JavaScript to access the full features of the site or access our non-JavaScript page.

Abhijit Sarkar,†^a Shuji Okada,^a Hiroshi Matsuzawa,^a Hiro Matsuda^b and Hachiro Nakanishi*^a

Author affiliations

* Corresponding authors

^a Institute for Chemical Reaction Science, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sandai, Japan
E-mail: hnakanis@icrs.tohoku.ac.jp

^b National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research, 1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Japan

Abstract

Polydiacetylenes (PDAs) are of great interest due to their π-conjugated backbone related properties, such as linear and nonlinear optical properties. As a consequence, design and preparation of PDAs assume enormous importance today. This review deals with one aspect of PDA, that is, design and preparation of the diacetylene monomers and their polymers, PDAs having conjugated side groups. The aim of such an investigation is to produce materials which exhibit large third-order nonlinear optical susceptibilities and which consequently, can be obtained in a form to be customised for optical devices.

Download options Please wait...

Article information

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/A907438D
Article type: Paper
Submitted: 14 Sep 1999
Accepted: 20 Dec 1999
First published: 06 Mar 2000

Download Citation

J. Mater. Chem., 2000,10, 819-828

Permissions

Request permissions