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Synthesis and characterization of thermally crosslinked polyimide with second-order nonlinear optical chromophore

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Synthesis of three novel crosslinked polyimides with push-pull azobenzene group has been developed. 4-Nitre4′-[N, N-bis (2-aminoethyl)]aminoazobenzene was first prepared, then poly(amic acid) prepolymer, one crosslinkable component, was obtained by aminolysis of alternating styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer, alternating thiophene-maleic anhydride copolymer or alternating benzofuran-maleic anhydride copolymer with it, and at last the crosslinked second-order nonlinear optical polyimide was synthesized by crosslinking and imidizing poly (amic acid) prepolymer with corresponding alternating copolymer. The crosslinking and imidizing processes were studied by IR and UV-Vis spectra. The chromophore density in one of the crosslinkable components, poly(amic acid) prepolymer, and the thermal stability of crosslinked polyimide thin film were measured by UV-Vis spectra.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Nankai University, 300071, Tianjin, China

    Jiben Meng, Hong Ma, Xiaoliu Li, Jinliang Li & Yongmei Wang

  2. Institute of Photographic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China

    Yuquan Shen & Ping Chen

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Project supported by the National 863 High Technology Program and the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the State Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials for Adsorption and Separation in Nakai University (Grant No. 29572054)

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Meng, J., Ma, H., Shen, Y. et al. Synthesis and characterization of thermally crosslinked polyimide with second-order nonlinear optical chromophore. Sc. China Ser. B-Chem. 41, 395–402 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02877818

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