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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Switch Materials, Inc., Burnaby, CA;
Neil Robin Branda, North Vancouver, CA;
Jeremy Graham Finden, North Vancouver, CA;
Simon James Gauthier, Vancouver, CA;
Ali Hayek, Burnaby, CA;
Kyle Andrew Hope-Ross, Vancouver, CA;
James Daniel Senior, Surrey, CA;
Andreea Spantulescu, New Westminster, CA;
Serguei Sviridov, Burnaby, CA;
Switch Materials, Inc., Burnaby, British Columbia, CA;
Abstract
A compound according to Formula IA and IB, reversibly convertible under photochromic and electrochromic conditions between a ring-open isomer A and a ring-closed isomer B is provided. For substitutent groups, Z is N, O or S; each Ris independently selected from the group consisting of H, or halo; each Ris independently selected from the group consisting of H, halo, a polymer backbone, alkyl or aryl; or, when both Rtogether form —CH═CH— and form part of a polymer backbone; each Ris independently selected from the group consisting of H, halo, alkyl, alkoxy, thioalkyl or aryl; each Ris aryl; and each Ris independently selected from the group consisting of H, halo, alkyl, alkoxy, thioalkyl or aryl.