Abstract
AbstractThree kinds of photoresponsive polymethacrylates containing different bisazo chromophores were prepared with atom transfer radical polymerization and characterized with proton nuclear magnetic resonance, gel permeation chromatography, and ultraviolet–visible spectra. These polymers had similar molecular weights, molecular weight distributions, glass‐transition temperatures, and absorption coefficients. The irradiation of these polymer films with a linearly polarized laser could induce birefringence because of the reorientation of the bisazo chromophores through trans–cis–trans isomerization cycles of double azo bonds, and the corresponding mechanism was also examined. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 42: 4237–4247, 2004
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