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Photochemical and Photophysical Behavior of Azopolymer Compounds

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Photochemical Behavior of Multicomponent Polymeric-based Materials

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Two phenyl rings separated by an azo (–N=N–) bond known as Azobenzene, functions as the base molecule for a wide class of aromatic azo compounds. Azobenzenes almost cover the full rainbow, and up to and almost 70 % of the world’s commercial dyes are still azobenzene-based.

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  1. Research Institute for Applied Physics and Astronomy (RIAPA), University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

    Elnaz Bagherzadeh-Khajehmarjan, Sohrab Ahmadi-Kandjani & Shahla Golghasemi-Sorkhabi

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    Shahla Golghasemi-Sorkhabi

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Bagherzadeh-Khajehmarjan, E., Ahmadi-Kandjani, S., Golghasemi-Sorkhabi, S. (2016). Photochemical and Photophysical Behavior of Azopolymer Compounds. In: Rosu, D., Visakh P. M. (eds) Photochemical Behavior of Multicomponent Polymeric-based Materials. Advanced Structured Materials, vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25196-7_9

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