U.S. Philips Corporation

Applied Nanosystems B.v.

Bernard L Feringa

Egbert Willem Meijer

Wolter F Jager

Ben De Lange

André Heeres

Johannes Henricus Van Esch

Kjeld Jacobus Cornelis Van Bommel

Maaike De Loos

The invention relates to a novel class of gelling agents, to a process of preparing said agents, to the use of said agents to prepare gels, and to the gels thus obtained. A gelling agent or thickener according to the invention comprises a core which is functionalized with three amino acid derived groups by means of an amide or urea linkage. It may be used to gelate or thicken numerous solvents.

Gelling agents

A method of writing and reading or writing, reading and erasing information in an optical recording medium is provided in which in an optical recording medium an optically active compound which is an inherently chiral dissymmetric olefinic chromophore is subjected to the action of circularly polarized light or is caused to undergo cis-trans isomerization during writing, is subjected to linearly polarized light during reading, and is subjected to linearly or circularly polarized light or light of a wavelength suitable to effect cis-trans isomerization for erasing.

Method of writing, reading and erasing information

An optical recording medium and a method of writing, reading and erasing information in an optical recording medium are provided in which the optical recording medium comprises a carrier and a recording layer which contains at least one optically active organic compound, wherein said optically active organic compound is an inherently chiral dissymmetric olefinic chromophore.

Optical recording medium

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Paterswolde, Netherlands

Bernard L Feringa