Charge transportability

CNTs in polymer-CNT composites are efficiently debundled and isotropically dispersed in polymer matrices, the efficient interaction between CNT and polymer provides good dispersion and a low percolation threshold, but only relatively low conductivity near and above percolation, frequently around 10 s cm is achieved at close to 2wt% CNT loading [70, 71], The polymer layer in the intemanotube connections is supposed to be the highest resistance section in the electrical pathway. This polymer layer is a barrier to efficient carrier transport between CNTs, and models for conductivity based on fluctuation-induced tunneling have been proposed [72]. A power law related to percolation theory can be used to model conductivity in the following form  

There are three different regions on the conductivity changes before percolation, after percolation and up to 4wt%, and higher concentrated samples. A polymer conjugation length increases steadily with the addition of 0.1 wt% MWNT and stays approximately constant for more concentrated samples. The structural studies indicate an increase of long range order in the 1 wt% composite and an 

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Niu S and Mauzerall D 1996 Fast and efficient charge transport across a lipid bilayer is electronically mediated by Cyf, fullerene aggregates J. Am. Chem. Soc. 118 5791-5... 

Henderson P T, Jones D, Hampikian G, Kan Y Z and Schuster G B 1999 Long-distance charge transport in dupiex DNA the phonon-assisted poiaron-iike hopping mechanism Proc. Natl Acad. Sc/., USA 96 8353-8... 

Nanoclusters/Polymer Composites. The principle for developing a new class of photoconductive materials, consisting of charge-transporting polymers such as PVK doped with semiconductor nanoclusters, sometimes called nanoparticles, Q-particles, or quantum dots, has been demonstrated (26,27). 

According to the Scher-MontroU model, the dispersive current transient (Fig. 5b) can be analyzed in a double-log plot of log(i) vs log(/). The slope should be —(1 — ct) for t < and —(1 + a) for t > with a sum of the two slopes equal to 2, as shown in Figure 5c. For many years the Scher-MontroU model has been the standard model to use in analyzing dispersive charge transport in polymers. 

In moleculady doped polymers, charge transport is carried out by the hole-transporting molecular dopants, usually aromatic amines. The polymer merely acts as a binder. The hole mobiUty is sensitive to the dopant concentrations. For example, the hole mobiUty of... 

Semiconducting Ceramics. Most oxide semiconductors are either doped to create extrinsic defects or annealed under conditions in which they become non stoichiometric. Although the resulting defects have been carefully studied in many oxides, the precise nature of the conduction is not well understood. Mobihty values associated with the various charge transport mechanisms are often low and difficult to measure. In consequence, reported conductivities are often at variance because the effects of variable impurities and past thermal history may overwhelm the dopant effects. 

This article addresses the synthesis, properties, and appHcations of redox dopable electronically conducting polymers and presents an overview of the field, drawing on specific examples to illustrate general concepts. There have been a number of excellent review articles (1—13). Metal particle-filled polymers, where electrical conductivity is the result of percolation of conducting filler particles in an insulating matrix (14) and ionically conducting polymers, where charge-transport is the result of the motion of ions and is thus a problem of mass transport (15), are not discussed. 

Charge Transport. Side reactions can occur if the current distribution (electrode potential) along an electrode is not uniform. The side reactions can take the form of unwanted by-product formation or localized corrosion of the electrode. The problem of current distribution is addressed by the analysis of charge transport ia cell design. The path of current flow ia a cell is dependent on cell geometry, activation overpotential, concentration overpotential, and conductivity of the electrolyte and electrodes. Three types of current distribution can be described (48) when these factors are analyzed, a nontrivial exercise even for simple geometries (11). 

Most of the known charge-transport layers are -type or hole transporting. Thus this type of layered photoconductor must be charged negatively. 

Fig. 8. (a) The four basic classes of charge-transporting polymers, and (b) corresponding examples. Class 4 polymers may be either CJ-bonded or... 

Transport numbers are intended to measure the fraction of the total ionic current carried by an ion in an electrolyte as it migrates under the influence of an applied electric field. In essence, transport numbers are an indication of the relative ability of an ion to carry charge. The classical way to measure transport numbers is to pass a current between two electrodes contained in separate compartments of a two-compartment cell These two compartments are separated by a barrier that only allows the passage of ions. After a known amount of charge has passed, the composition and/or mass of the electrolytes in the two compartments are analyzed. Erom these data the fraction of the charge transported by the cation and the anion can be calculated. Transport numbers obtained by this method are measured with respect to an external reference point (i.e., the separator), and, therefore, are often referred to as external transport numbers. Two variations of the above method, the Moving Boundary method [66] and the Eiittorff method [66-69], have been used to measure cation (tR+) and anion (tx ) transport numbers in ionic liquids, and these data are listed in Table 3.6-7. 

In accordance with Ohm s law, if we were to double the intensity X of the electric field, the current would be doubled that is to say, the plane CD would have to be placed at twice the distance from AB. If the number of conduction electrons per unit volume is p, and the distance between the planes CD and AB is denoted by v, we have n = pv, since we are discussing the unit area. Hence the net resultant charge transported in unit time across AB, that is, the current density, is given by... 

Miller, I. R. Structural and energetic aspects of charge transport in lipid layers and in biological membranes, in Topics in Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics, Vol. 4 (ed.) Milazzo, G., New York, Wiley 1981... 

Multilayer Devices The Incorporation of Charge-Transporting Layers... 

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