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Title: | Photochromic Polyurethanes Showing a Strong Change of Transparency and Refractive Index | Authors: | OGGIONI, LUCA Toccafondi, Chiara PARIANI, Giorgio Colella, Letizia Canepa, Maurizio Bertarelli, Chiara BIANCO, ANDREA |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Journal: | POLYMERS | Number: | 9 | Issue: | 9 | Abstract: | Photochromic polymers have been studied as rewritable systems for optical elements with tunable transparency in the visible and refractive index in the NIR. Six diarylethene monomers have been synthesized to give thin films of photochromic polyurethanes. The absorption properties of the monomers in solution and of the corresponding polymeric films have been evaluated showing that a transparency contrast in the visible spectrum of the order of 103 can be obtained by a suitable choice of the chemical structure and illumination wavelength. The change in the refractive index in the NIR have been determined by ellipsometry showing changes larger than 10−2 . A trend of this variation with the absorption properties has been also highlighted. Fresnel lenses working on the basis of both a change of the transparency and the refractive index (amplitude and phase) have been demonstrated. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/28411 | URL: | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/9/9/462 | ISSN: | 2073-4360 | DOI: | 10.3390/polym9090462 | Fulltext: | open |
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