Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry: Open Access
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The University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco

Biography

Sekkat, Zouheir was born on July 10, 1964 in Casablanca, Morocco. Son of Abderrahim and Zahra Sekkat. Bachelor of Science in Physics, U. Fes, 1988; Master of Science in Physics, U. Paris, 1989; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, U. Paris, 1992. Postdoctoral researcher, U. Paris, Orsay, France, 1992-1993; postdoctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany, 1993-1996; postdoctoral researcher, University of California, Davis, since 1996.

Publications

• Short Communication   
  Photo-responsive Polymers: Azo dye containing polymers
  Author(s): Zouheir Sekkat
  
  Azo dyes containing materials have been studied intensively over the past decades owing to the ability of the dyes to change shape from an elongated to a more globular form; i.e. ability to isomerize upon light absorption; a photo-reaction which brings about a wealth of applications including switching, and data storage and holography, and gratings, and nonlinear optical effects, and tweezing, and actuation and photomechanics, and micro-nanomachines, and so on. Books and reviews summarize the field. In azo-polymers, photoisomerization of the azo dyes enhances molecular mobility below the polymer’s glass transition temperature (Tg); a phenomenon which is at the origin of photo-assisted poling and surface relief gratings. Photo-enhanced molecular mobility below Tg, with implication of controlling materials mechanical properties, has received considerable interest both from fundame.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2471-2698.20.5.154

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