BASIC ELECTROCHROMICS OF CPs

With this very elementary understanding of the basic electrochemistry of CPs, we can now proceed to an elementary treatment of their electrochromism. 

We can now proceed to an examination of the most basic electrochemical datum obtainable from a CP film, the Cyclic Voltammogram (CV), which is just a measurement of current resulting from application of a voltage (potential) function to the CP, i.e. just an I/E curve, with a fixed scan rate expressed in mV/s. The CV is correlated directly with the electrochromism of the CP, if it is electrochromically active, in the sense that the redox peaks observed in the CV usually coincide with the CP s color changes. 

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