Conducting polymers copolymers

Figure 3.4 is a display of data which confirms the predictions of Eq. (3.46). For T and a constant-the case in these experiments—Eq. (3.46) predicts that a plot of Uj versus 1 /M should yield a straight line with an intercept proportional to 1/M(,. The elastomers on which the experiments were conducted were copolymers of isobutylene containing a small amount of isoprene. The polymers... 

Common conductive polymers are poly acetylene, polyphenylene, poly-(phenylene sulfide), polypyrrole, and polyvinylcarba2ole (123) (see Electrically conductive polymers). A static-dissipative polymer based on a polyether copolymer has been aimounced (124). In general, electroconductive polymers have proven to be expensive and difficult to process. In most cases they are blended with another polymer to improve the processibiUty. Conductive polymers have met with limited commercial success. 

Polymers and copolymers are among the most beneficial materials produced by synthetic chemistry. The invention and commercialization of new polymeric materials with radical new properties provides an opportunity to monopolize the market and justify the expense involved in the research and development. The commercialization of new polymers or copolymers always presents scale-up and design challenges. Scientists have recently developed new polymeric materials whose commercial impact has yet to be realized. Examples are semiconductive and conductive polymers and amphiphilic dendritic block copolymers. Other promising materials, such as polymers for (targeted) drug delivery and... 

Pyrolysis-MS, together with TGA analysis, was chosen recently as the technique with which to investigate the thermal behaviour of two polythiophene copolymers, since insolubility in common solvents of conducting polymers limits... 

Uses Copolymerized with methyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate, vinyl acetate, vinyl chloride, or 1,1-dichloroethylene to produce acrylic and modacrylic fibers and high-strength fibers ABS (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene) and acrylonitrile-styrene copolymers nitrile rubber cyano-ethylation of cotton synthetic soil block (acrylonitrile polymerized in wood pulp) manufacture of adhesives organic synthesis grain fumigant pesticide monomer for a semi-conductive polymer that can be used similar to inorganic oxide catalysts in dehydrogenation of tert-butyl alcohol to isobutylene and water pharmaceuticals antioxidants dyes and surfactants. 

Elsenbaumer et aL 598> recently made a comparative study of stability of doped conducting polymers in air. They concluded that a combination of a stable polymer with a non-reactive dopant, such as butylthiophene-methylthiophene copolymer doped with FeClg, could give almost indefinite stability in air with an effective ceiling of 50 °C. 

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Ballard Advanced Materials (BAM) ionomers are sulfonated copolymers of trifluorostyrene and substimted trifluorostyrene monomers. BAM, a subsidiary of Ballard Power Systems, investigated the conducting polymers based on polyphenylquinoxaline (PPQ). These can be sulfonated in a wide range and were referred to as BAMIG (Ballard first generation) membranes, but these membranes were found to have short durability. To overcome this problem, BAM developed a second generation of advanced membranes based on two distinct material types. The first material type consisted of a series of sulfonated poly(2,6-diphenyl 1,4-phenylene oxide). The second material type consisted of a series of sulfonated poly(arylether sulfone). But the durability of these membranes was also insufficient. Since the durability of previous membranes was limited, Ballard produced a novel family of sulfonated membranes based on a,p,p-ttifluorostyrene monomers and a series of substituted ttifluoro-comonomers... 

Recent encouraging results have been reported by Carter et al., who have obtained room temperature lifetimes in excess of 7000 h for encapsulated ITO/PPV/Ca devices at current densities of 60 mA/cm2.37 The polymer used was the PPV copolymer shown in Fig. 5.23, where the conjugation is interrupted by nonconjugated a -acetyloxy-/ -xylylene units. The efficiency of these devices was typically 0.02 lm/W. Devices operating at 80° C had lifetimes in excess of 1100 h. Carter et al., also reported devices based on the same emissive polymer giving efficiencies between 0.5 and 2 lm/W. These devices used a layer of conducting polymer (polyethylenedioxythiophene/polystyrene sulfonate) between the ITO and the PPV, and a sputtered aluminum/lithium alloy as the cathode. The devices... 

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