Organic-inorganic hybrids are attractive materials with characteristics of both inorganic substances and organic polymers. The various functions derived from their chemical structures offer great potential for practical usages. As an effective method for bonding dissimilar components, the simultaneous photo-crosslinking by organic reactions, such as radical polymerization, cationic polymerization, thiolene reaction and sol-gel reaction are useful. In addition, photo cross-linking organic-inorganic hybrids can also be synthesized from a polysilsesquioxane having a photoreactive group. These organic-inorganic hybrid thin films are very transparent and these hybrids are interesting as optical materials with a controlled refractive index.
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