Abstract
Photoresponsive and photocrosslinkable polymeric materials are important in many industrial applications. These range from photolithography to light curable coatings and inks, to holography, and to numerous other applications. In order to adequately describe the chemistry of these materials, it is necessary to first explain the manner in which polymers interact with light. This chapter is an attempt to present some of the background and aid in understanding the discussions of light-associated reactions of polymeric materials for readers not familiar with the subjects of photochemistry and photophysics. The information presented in this introduction was obtained from the fundamental sources listed in the references. What is presented here, however, is not a thorough discussion of the subject. For a detailed discussion the reader is encouraged to go to the original sources in the references.
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Ravve, A. (2006). Introduction. In: Light-Associated Reactions of Synthetic Polymers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-36414-5_1
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