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Highly sensitive updatable green hologram recording polymer with photoisomerizable azobenzene with highly birefringent acetylene as the side chain

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To develop highly sensitive updatable hologram materials, an azobenzene monomer was synthesized herein that supports effective photoisomerization under visible green beam irradiation. Furthermore, an acetylene group was introduced via Sonogashira coupling for higher birefringence. Polymerization was performed on the synthesized azobenzene monomer and on the methyl methacrylate (MMA) monomer, which serves as the skeleton of the film. The structures of all molecules were characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, and UV-Visible absorption spectroscopy was performed to analyze their optical properties. The holographic writing and rewriting capabilities of the newly synthesized azobenzene side-chain polymer were characterized by using a green laser as a writing beam, which showed that a high diffraction efficiency was reliably achievable under low-energy laser irradiation when evaluated with a four-wave-mixing optical scheme.

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This work was supported by the Technology Innovation Industrial Program funded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (10052667, Korea) and the KRICT core project (SS2021-20).

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  1. Advanced Functional Polymers Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, 100 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34114, Republic of Korea

    Hye Ju Kang, Yi Young Kang, Jieun Lee, Yewon Lee, Inhye Jeon & Jae-Won Ka

  2. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea

    Hye Ju Kang, Yewon Lee & Won-Gun Koh

  3. School of Electronics Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehak-ro, Buk-gu, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea

    Kyung-Il Joo, Tae-Hyun Lee & Hak-Rin Kim

  4. School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehak-ro, Buk-gu, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea

    Kyung-Il Joo, Tae-Hyun Lee & Hak-Rin Kim

  5. Department of Organic Materials Engineering, Chungnam National University, 99 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34134, Republic of Korea

    Jieun Lee & Jae-Hak Choi

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Kang, H.J., Joo, KI., Kang, Y.Y. et al. Highly sensitive updatable green hologram recording polymer with photoisomerizable azobenzene with highly birefringent acetylene as the side chain. Polym J 53, 539–547 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41428-020-00447-x

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