John P. Riggs

Multifunctional Polymers — An Industrial Perspective

This paper overviews, from an industrial viewpoint, the developing unusually broad and many-faceted utility of organic polymeric-based materials, including both emerging technology and product developments, in structural and functional polymers. Included is a positioning of the role and significance of polymers, in the general context of materials development, as an increasingly important enabling technology, with specific identification of materials types, emerging markets and growth rates.

Poled Glassy Polymers and Metallated Macrocycles for Nonlinear Optics

The design and properties of amorphous polymers with second-order nonlinear optical functionality, is discussed. Certain device types are reviewed in the context of the material properties. Third order materials of a specific type, based on metallated macrocycles are also reviewed.