Synthesis and Characterization of Bent-shaped Azobenzene Monomers: Guest-host Effects in Liquid Crystals With Azo Dyes for Optical Image Storage Devices

• Main Authors: Hegde, Gurumurthy, Lutfor, M. R., Kumar, Sandeep, Tschierske, Carsten, Chigrinov, V. G.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2009
• Subjects: QC Physics
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5413/1/2009_Gurumurthy.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5413/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2009.07.006
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Pahang

Six novel bent-shaped monomers were synthesized such as substituted/or non-substituted 1, 3-phenylene bis-{4-[(4-allyloxy) phenylazo] benzoate}(4a�c) and substituted/or non- substituted 1, 3-phenylene bis-{4-[3-(4-allyloxy-3-fluoro) phenylazo] benzoate}(4d�f) in which azobenzene moiet...