An all-optical photorefractive miktoarm star polymer synthesized via a combination of RAFT polymerization and click reaction

Recent progress to construct calixarene-based polymers using covalent bonds: synthesis and applications

“…It is supposed that covalent linkages of calixarenes in a polymer main chain demonstrate several interesting and applicable properties. 22 In particular, the preparation of calixarenecontaining polymers has two general synthetic methods. One is based on polymerization reactions of a functionalized calixarene monomers, and the other relied on the immobilization of the calixarene moiety on a polymeric matrix.…”

All-optical non-conjugated multi-functionalized photorefractive polymers via ring-opening metathesis polymerization

“…Photorefractive (PR) polymeric materials, including fully functional polymers and polymer composites, have been studied for years owing to their potential applications in phase conjugation, high-density optical data storage, neural network simulations, image processing and so on (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6). Compared to polymer composites, fully functional PR polymers have more advantages because all the functional bodies with PR effect are covalently bonded on the polymers, which eliminates the problems of phase separation and crystallization, so that the potential devices have better stability and longer warranty period (1,(7)(8)(9)(10). However, fully functionalized PR polymers are so far reported to be almost having a main-chain conjugated structure being prepared with complicated synthetic processes, which are not beneficial to the potential application (7,8).…”

“…Compared to polymer composites, fully functional PR polymers have more advantages because all the functional bodies with PR effect are covalently bonded on the polymers, which eliminates the problems of phase separation and crystallization, so that the potential devices have better stability and longer warranty period (1,(7)(8)(9)(10). However, fully functionalized PR polymers are so far reported to be almost having a main-chain conjugated structure being prepared with complicated synthetic processes, which are not beneficial to the potential application (7,8). In the past few years, organic amorphous PR molecular materials have also been developed.…”