Also known as poly(vinylcarbazole), poly(N-vinylcarbazole), poly(9-vinylcarbazole), PVK
Polyvinylcarbazole (PVK) is a temperature-resistant thermoplastic polymer produced by radical polymerization from the monomer N-vinylcarbazole. It is a photoconductive polymer and thus the basis for photorefractive polymers and organic light-emitting diodes.
Polyvinylcarbazole (PVK) is a temperature-resistant thermoplastic polymer produced by radical polymerization from the monomer N-vinylcarbazole. It is a photoconductive polymer and thus the basis for photorefractive polymers and organic light-emitting diodes.
== History == Polyvinylcarbazole was discovered by the chemists Walter Reppe (1892-1969), Ernst Keyssner and Eugen Dorrer and patented by I.G. Farben in the USA in 1937. PVK was the first polymer whose photoconductivity was known. Starting in the 1960s, further polymers of this kind were sought.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).