Conducting polymer colloid

Components with improved mechanical properties can be produced by mixing the above processable polymers with other polymers. For example, we have mixed conducting polymer colloids with water based latex paints to form conductive, electroactive paints with excellent adhesion to a range of metals [132], Interestingly, the paint-metal adhesion was actually increased by addition of the conducting polymer colloid. 

Other workers have used additives to enable the preparation of effectively water-soluble conductive polymer colloids. As early as 1986, Bjorklund and Liedberg102 observed that when pyrrole was oxidized by FeCl3 in the presence of aqueous methylcellulose (MWt 100,000), a PPy/methylcellulose sol was formed that could be characterized by scanning electron microscopy. Thin films could be obtained from the sol, exhibiting a conductivity of ca. 0.2 S cm-1. Subsequently, a range of neutral, water-soluble steric stabilizers such as poly(vinylalcohol), poly(ethyleneoxide) (PEO), or poly(vinylpyridine) have been successfully... 

W. Li, Q. X. Jia, H. Wang, -L. Facile Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles Using Conducting Polymer Colloids. Polymer 2006,47, 23-26. 

Eisazadeh, H., A.J. Hodgson, K.G. Gilmore, G.M. Spinks, and G.G. Wallace. 1995. Electrochemical production of conducting polymer colloids. Colloids Surf A 103 281. 

Tremendous research works have been performed on the synthesis of conducting polymer nanomaterials using dispersion polymerization method [181-188]. There are two categories of dispersion polymerization in order to fabricate the conducting polymer colloids. The first approach forms polymer stabilizer coated conducting polymer nanoparticles. In this case, the monomer and oxidant are dissolved in a stabilized liquid mediiun and the formation of insoluble conducting polymer nanoparticles occurs as the polymerization proceeds. 

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Armes, S.P., "Potential Applications of conducting Polymer Colloids", p. 35 in Aldissi, M. (Ed.), Intrinsically Conducting Polymers An Emerging Technology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (1993). 

The beauty of this electrochemical approach to production of colloids is fhaf a range of dopants (A ) can be incorporated into the polymer. For example functional dopants such as corrosion inhibitors, proteins and polyelectrolytes have been incorporated. Even dopants that produce chiral activity within the conducting polymer colloid have been successfully incorporated. ... 

Armes, S.P. (1998) Colloidal dispersions of conducting polymer colloids. In T.A. Skotheim, R.L. Enselbaumer and J.R. Reynolds (eds). Handbook of Conducting Polymers, 2nd edn. Marcel Dekker, New York, p. 423. 

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