Abstract: The present invention relates to use of transition metal complexes in photochromic devices, to the production of optical information storage devices based on a polymeric matrix and on metal oxides with adsorbed transition metal complexes, to the production of photochromic materials constituted by a film of metal oxide with adsorbed two different type of molecular systems, one acting as a charge transfer sensitizer and the second as an electron acceptor.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 7, 2000
Date of Patent:
December 31, 2002
Assignee:
Molecular Storage Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Patrick Sanders, Carlo Alberto Bignozzi