Preparation and application of amino-functionalized graphene oxide/azo polymer composite waveguide material

• Main Authors: CHEN CAIHONG, QIU FENGXIAN, YANG DONGYA, DA ZULIN, CAO TIANLIN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 06.01.2016
• Subjects: CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS, THE OPTICAL OPERATION OF WHICH ISMODIFIED BY CHANGING THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIUM OF THEDEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE INTENSITY,COLOUR, PHASE, POLARISATION OR DIRECTION OF LIGHT, e.g.SWITCHING, GATING, MODULATING OR DEMODULATING; FREQUENCY-CHANGING; MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONSONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS; METALLURGY; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICS; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PHYSICS; TECHNIQUES OR PROCEDURES FOR THE OPERATION THEREOF; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; USE OF INORGANIC OR NON-MACROMOLECULAR ORGANIC SUBSTANCES ASCOMPOUNDING INGREDIENTS

The invention belongs to the field of polymeric nanocomposite material synthesis, and relates to preparation and application of an amino-functionalized graphene oxide/azo polymer composite waveguide material. The preparation comprises the following steps: firstly preparing azo chromophore 4-(4-nitro-alkenyl)phenyl-1,3-diamine from paranitroaniline and m-phenylenediamine, and then preparing a isocyano-terinated azobenzene prepolymer from NAPD and IPDI in the presence of T-12; afterwards ultrasonically exfoliating graphite oxide to obtain graphene oxide dispersion liquid, and reacting with quadrol under the action of 2-(7-azo benzo triazole)-N, N, N minute, N minute-tetramethyluronium hexafluorophosphate, so as to obtain amino-functionalized graphene oxide; adding the carbimide radical blocked azobenzene prepolymer into EAGO, and performing vacuum drying. A thermo-optical coefficient (dn/dT) of the prepared amino-functionalized graphene oxide/azo polymer composite waveguide material is greater than that of a common organic material and is more than 10 times that of a traditional inorganic material, and the composite waveguide material can be applied to the development of novel digital thermal optical switches with low drive efficiency and higher response speed.