Advanced Optical Materials, volume 9, issue 19, pages 2100525

Exploiting Light Interferences to Generate Micrometer‐High Superstructures from Monomeric Azo Materials with Extensive Orientational Mobility

Rodriguez Florent 1
Jelken Joachim 2
Delpouve Nicolas 3
Laurent Adèle 1
Garnier Bertrand 4
Duvail J L. 5
Lagugné-Labarthet François 2
Ishow Elena 1
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Department of Chemistry University of Western Ontario (Western University) 1151, Richmond St. London Ontario N6A 5B7 Canada
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Normandie Université UNIROUEN Normandie INSA Rouen CNRS Groupe de Physique des Matériaux Rouen 76000 France
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2021-06-14
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Impact factor9
ISSN21951071
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Abstract
Photochromic azo materials have stirred considerable interest for their ability to mechanically respond to polarized light through large photoinduced migration and orientation processes. In order to apprehend the microscopic dynamics behind the extensive mass transport occurring under interferential illumination, two azo compounds differing by their propensity to form hydrogen bonds are synthesized and processed as nondoped glassy thin films. Interferential irradiation using polarization and intensity patterns reveals fully distinct responses. Regular nanometer‐high surface relief gratings transform into micrometer superstructures with an amplitude ten times higher than the initial film thickness when using the latter polarization. Systematic comparisons between the azo materials in terms of thermal properties, photochromism in solution and in the solid state, and photomigration are carried out. The progressive formation of superstructures is ascribed to two successive processes. The first one relates to fast photoinduced migration due to the impinging structured light, and the second one is promoted by slower thermally activated “zig‐zag”‐like diffusion and Z‐E thermal relaxation, which in turn requests high orientational mobility of the azo compounds and causes large nanomechanical changes. Such studies should provide novel structural guidelines in terms of material fluidity to rapidly achieve highly structured and rewritable materials at low light irradiance.

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Rodriguez F. et al. Exploiting Light Interferences to Generate Micrometer‐High Superstructures from Monomeric Azo Materials with Extensive Orientational Mobility // Advanced Optical Materials. 2021. Vol. 9. No. 19. p. 2100525.
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Rodriguez F., Jelken J., Delpouve N., Laurent A., Garnier B., Duvail J. L., Lagugné-Labarthet F., Ishow E. Exploiting Light Interferences to Generate Micrometer‐High Superstructures from Monomeric Azo Materials with Extensive Orientational Mobility // Advanced Optical Materials. 2021. Vol. 9. No. 19. p. 2100525.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1002/adom.202100525
UR - https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fadom.202100525
TI - Exploiting Light Interferences to Generate Micrometer‐High Superstructures from Monomeric Azo Materials with Extensive Orientational Mobility
T2 - Advanced Optical Materials
AU - Rodriguez, Florent
AU - Jelken, Joachim
AU - Delpouve, Nicolas
AU - Laurent, Adèle
AU - Garnier, Bertrand
AU - Ishow, Elena
AU - Duvail, J L.
AU - Lagugné-Labarthet, François
PY - 2021
DA - 2021/06/14 00:00:00
PB - Wiley
SP - 2100525
IS - 19
VL - 9
SN - 2195-1071
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@article{2021_Rodriguez,
author = {Florent Rodriguez and Joachim Jelken and Nicolas Delpouve and Adèle Laurent and Bertrand Garnier and Elena Ishow and J L. Duvail and François Lagugné-Labarthet},
title = {Exploiting Light Interferences to Generate Micrometer‐High Superstructures from Monomeric Azo Materials with Extensive Orientational Mobility},
journal = {Advanced Optical Materials},
year = {2021},
volume = {9},
publisher = {Wiley},
month = {jun},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fadom.202100525},
number = {19},
pages = {2100525},
doi = {10.1002/adom.202100525}
}
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Rodriguez, Florent, et al. “Exploiting Light Interferences to Generate Micrometer‐High Superstructures from Monomeric Azo Materials with Extensive Orientational Mobility.” Advanced Optical Materials, vol. 9, no. 19, Jun. 2021, p. 2100525. https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fadom.202100525.
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