Acetylenic polymers: syntheses, structures, and functions

J Liu, JWY Lam, BZ Tang - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of polymers is of academic value and technological implication and has been
developed as an important area of research over a long history. 1 The first reports about …

Polymer‐based optical waveguides: materials, processing, and devices

H Ma, AKY Jen, LR Dalton - Advanced materials, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer optical waveguide devices will play a key role in several rapidly developing areas
of broadband communications, such as optical networking, metropolitan/access …

Broadband modulation of light by using an electro-optic polymer

M Lee, HE Katz, C Erben, DM Gill, P Gopalan… - Science, 2002 - science.org
A major challenge to increasing bandwidth in optical telecommunications is to encode
electronic signals onto a lightwave carrier by modulating the light up to very fast rates …

Dendrimer–drug interactions

A D'Emanuele, D Attwood - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
The interaction between drugs and dendrimers is reviewed with particular reference to the
entrapment of drugs within the dendrimer architecture and the electrostatic and covalent …

Charge instability in quadrupolar chromophores: Symmetry breaking and solvatochromism

F Terenziani, A Painelli, C Katan… - Journal of the …, 2006 - ACS Publications
We present a joint theoretical and experimental work aimed to understand the spectroscopic
behavior of multipolar dyes of interest for nonlinear optics (NLO) applications. In particular …

Nonlinear refraction and absorption: mechanisms and magnitudes

DN Christodoulides, IC Khoo, GJ Salamo… - Advances in Optics …, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We provide an in-depth treatment of the various mechanisms by which an incident light
beam can produce an intensity-or flux-dependent change in the refractive index and …

Dendrimers derived from 1→ 3 branching motifs

GR Newkome, C Shreiner - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
In 2008, we overviewed1 poly (amido amine) s, polypropylenimines, and related dendrimers
and dendrons possessing diverse 1 f 2 branching patterns that were predominately made …

Recent progress in second-order nonlinear optical polymers and dendrimers

MJ Cho, DH Choi, PA Sullivan, AJP Akelaitis… - Progress in Polymer …, 2008 - Elsevier
This review provides a survey of nonlinear optical (NLO) chromophores and materials
incorporating them which have been demonstrated over the last several years. Conventional …

Dimerization of merocyanine dyes. Structural and energetic characterization of dipolar dye aggregates and implications for nonlinear optical materials

F Würthner, S Yao, T Debaerdemaeker… - Journal of the …, 2002 - ACS Publications
Aggregation of polar merocyanine dyes has been identified as an important problem in the
fabrication of organic materials for photonic applications. In this work, a series of …

A modular approach toward functionalized three-dimensional macromolecules: from synthetic concepts to practical applications

AW Bosman, R Vestberg, A Heumann… - Journal of the …, 2003 - ACS Publications
A new strategy for the preparation of functional, multiarm star polymers via nitroxide-
mediated “living” radical polymerization has been explored. The generality of this approach …