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Investigation of Photoinduced Orientation Ordering in Polymethacrylates with Side-Chain Azobenzene Moieties

Oksana Nadtoka1 and Oleg Yaroshchuk2
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1 Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, 64, Volodymyrska str., 01033 Kyiv, Ukraine; oksananadtoka@ukr.net 2 Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences, 46, Nauky Ave, Kyiv, Ukraine
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https://doi.org/10.23939/chcht06.04.377
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The initial and the photoinduced 3D orientational order in the films of two methacrylic polymers containing azobenzene groups with electron-donor or electron-acceptor substituents was studied by using null ellipsometry and UV/Vis absorption spectroscopy. The 3D order was induced by monochromatic polarized light of two different wavelengths corresponding to * and n* absorption bands of azochromophores. We found that, depending on the excitation wavelength and terminal substituents of azochromophores, recording kinetics of photoinduced anisotropy in the polymers is dominated by either angular redistribution or angularly selective trans-cis isomerization of the chromophores originally being mainly in the trans-form. Before irradiation, the azobenzene groups in the films of all polymers show preference to the out-of-plane ordering. Scenario of the order transformation under irradiation depends on the prevailing mechanism of the photoinduced anisotropy. In case of angular redistribution, initial positive uniaxial order of azochromophores is transformed into the negative uniaxial order characterized by random orientation of these units in the plane perpendicular to the polarization direction of the exciting light. In turn, in case of photoselection, the chromophores approach a zero-order (spatially isotropic) state due to exhaustion of the anisotropic trans-isomers in all directions. The transient orientational structures in these kinetic processes are biaxial .
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