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Electrocatalytic devices Poly(allyl-amine) (PAH) Wheel-shaped (Mo36 and Mo46) crown-shaped (Mo54) sphere-shaped M08V2O28.7H2O [81-84]... 

Polyisobutylene-based block anionomers and cationomers, ( ), were prepared by Kennedy et al. (3) and used in drug release devices. Poly(2-dimethylami-no)ethyl methacrylate was quaternized after the block copolymer was synthesized to form a cationic block copolymer. 

The use of synthetic polymers in medicine and biotechnology is a subject of wide interest. Polymers are used in replacement blood vessels, heart valves, blood pumps, dialysis membranes, intraocular lenses, tissue regeneration platforms, surgical sutures, and in a variety of targeted, controlled drug delivery devices. Poly(organosiloxanes) have been used for many years as inert prostheses and heart valves. Biomedical materials based on polyphosphazenes are being considered for nearly all the uses mentioned above. 

By 1995 one finds that the main actors are different polymers, a change which can be partly attributed to the recent interest in semiconductor properties, especially light emission. In the field of conduction, polyacetylene has given its place to polyaniline, a polymer with a fascinating rich chemistry and a promise of good processability. In the semiconductor arena, the most studied polymer of the past decade is polythiophene, or rather its soluble derivatives which lend themselves very well to various fabrication processes. Another polymer, one which was only mentioned briefly in the 1986 Handbook, is competing with polythiophene for application in semiconductor devices poly(pura-phenylene vinylene). These three polymers received very little interest before 1985 no crystallographic studies had been published at that time. 

Commercial polymer films can be easily microstructured using Laser Interference Patterning. In that way, the scope of the technique is increased since materials having well-known bulk and surface properties can be microstructured, allowing direct application, for example, in biomedical devices poly(etheretherketone) resists sterilization by radiation or heat treatment and it has been used to produce kidney dialysis machine components poly(etherimide) is used in harmonic scalpels polycarbonate (PC) is used in electrophysiology cathethers and poly(imide) (PI) is used in off pump coronary artery bypass devices.Moreover, the surface of already fabricated systems could be modified using this technique since it can be applied in air without altering the shape of the samples. 

Poly(3-alkylthiophenes) (69) have been found to show excellent photoconductive properties [446-448], This fact as well as their processibility and stability render them attractive as active elements in optoelectronic devices. Poly(3-alkylthiophenes) are synthesized by electrochemical and chemical polymerization. The polymers are readily soluble in common oiganic solvents when the alkyl substituent contains more than four C-atoms [449]. The synthetic pathways to poly(3-alkylthiophenes) have been reviewed by Naarman and Strohrifegl [14], The molecular weight of the polymers synthesized by different authors using different methods varies within wide limits. 

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