Kinetics and Electrochemical Properties of a New Photochromic Diarylethene

Author

Liu, Weijun ; Pu, Shouzhi ; Yang, Tianshe ; Liu, Gang ; Cui, Shiqiang

Author_Institution

Jiangxi Key Lab. of Org. Chem., Jiangxi Sci. & Technol. Normal Univ., Nanchang, China

fYear

2009

fDate

16-17 May 2009

Firstpage

465

Lastpage

468

Abstract

A new unsymmetrical photochromic diarylethene compound, 1-[2-methyl-5-(4-cyanophenyl)-3-thienyl]-2-[2-methyl-5-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-thienyl] perfluorocyclopentene (1a), was synthesized and its photochemical properties, such as photochromism and kinetics in solution as well as in PMMA amorphous film, and electrochemical properties were investigated in detail. The results showed that the cyclization/cycloreversion process of the compound was determined to be the zeroth/first order reaction, and the electrochemical switching property can be potential use for electrochemistry data storage.

Keywords

electrochemistry; photochromism; cyclization/cycloreversion process; electrochemical switching property; electrochemistry data storage; photochromic diarylethene; Kinetic theory; Liquid crystal polymers; Memory; Optical films; Photochemistry; Photochromism; Polymer films; Solid state circuits; Solvents; Ultrafast optics; diarylethene; electrochemical; kinetic; photochromism;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits, Communications and Systems, 2009. PACCS '09. Pacific-Asia Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3614-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACCS.2009.80

Filename

5232387