Polymers in Information Storage Technology

I. Photochemical Aspects of Optical Recording.- Organic Materials for Optical Data Storage.- The Use of Radiations for the Modification of Polymers.- Optical Data Storage using Phase Separation of Polymer-Liquid Crystal Mixtures.- The Significance of Dielectric Relaxation Processes and Switching Properties for Data Storage in Liquid Crystal Polymer Media.- Photo-induced Isomerization-Nonlinear Optical Materials in Neuro-Optical Network.- II. Physicochemical Considerations in Optical Recording.- Polymeric Data Memories and Polymeric Substrate Materials for Information Storage Devices.- Thermally Irreversible Photochromic Materials for Erasable Optical Data Storage Media.- Rewritable Dye-Polymer Optical Storage Media.- Rewritable Dye-Polymer Optical Storage Medium: Dynamic Performance Characteristics.- Photochemical Hole Burning of Quinizarin and Tetraphenylporphin in Main-Chain Aromatic Polymers.- Materials for Mastering and Replication Processes in Optical Video, Audio and Data Disc Production.- III. Polymer Physics: Relevance to Optical Recording.- Magneto-Optical Recording Media Properties and Their Relationship to Composition, Deposition Techniques, and Substrate Properties.- Uniaxial Anisotropy Studies in Amorphous Tb-Fe on Polyimide Substrates.- Orientational and Stress Birefringence in Optical Disk Substrates.- Birefringence Analysis of Injection-Molded Polycarbonate (PC) Substrates.- Polymers as Mid-Infrared Holographic Recording Media.- Factors Affecting Polyimide Lightguide Quality.- IV. Bulk/Surface Chemical Considerations in Magnetic Recording.- Chemistry of an Epoxy-Phenolic Magnetic Disk Coating.- Biomimetic Routes to Magnetic Iron Oxide-Polymer Composites.- Rheological Characterization of High Solids Magnetic Dispersions.- The Role of Polymer Binder in Magnetic Recording Media.- The Particulate Media for Magnetic Recording: Characterization Techniques for Particle Dispersion and Orientation.- The Effect of Pigment Volume Concentration on the Magnetic and Mechanical Performance of Particulate Disk Coatings.- Volatilization Model for Polyperfluoroether Lubricants.- V. Physicochemical Aspects of Magnetic Recording.- Characterization and Hydrolysis of Magnetic Tapes.- Mechanism of Chemical Reactions Involved in Magnetic Coatings.- Plasma Polymer Films for Corrosion Protection of Cobalt-Nickel 80:20 Magnetic Thin Films.- Dynamic Mechanical Behavior of Thermoplastic Polyurethane in Magnetic Coatings.- Polyester-Polyurethane Interactions with Chromium Dioxide.- Role of Active Functional Groups and Conformation of Adsorbed Polymers in the Dispersibility of Magnetic Particles.- Rapid Determination of Coating Percent Pigment from Magnetic Recording Ink Density and Volume Fraction.- Melt Rheology of Partially Crosslinked Carbon Black Composites.- About the Contributors.