Electronic polymers

Swager TM (2002) Chem Res Toxicol 15 125 Ultrasensitive sensors from self-amplifying electronic polymers... 

Anon. CEN. 2002. Xerox claims electronics-polymer advance. Chemical and Engineering News December 9 11. 

The electronic industry, on the other hand, is growing significantly, and new products are forthcoming at a rapid rate. Demand for electronic polymer products is forecast to expand 6.4 percent per year to 3.5 billion in 2005. Adhesives used in this industry will grow at a rate of 8.8 percent, faster than the industry itself. This will require 485 million lb of resin valued at 1.6 billion. Of this, about 123 million lb of adhesives will be used in the electronics market.1617... 

U.S. Demand for Electronic Polymer Products to Expand 6.4% Annually Through 2005, Market Trends, May 2002, www.adhesivesmag.com. 

Figure 16-9. Snapshots of molecular configurations for the solvated electron polymer at two supercritical densities of water at 645 K. Left 1.0 g/cm3 Right. 0.05 g/cm3...

Organic light emitting diodes are currently being developed by numerous companies and research institutions worldwide. From the perspective of printed electronics, polymer-based hght emitting diodes are very attractive. Polymer LEDs are essentially diodes... 

Figure 1 Repeat units of several electronic polymers.

In the USA, demand for electronic polymers is expected to grown annually 6.4% through 2005 [5]. Growth will be driven by a shift to new electronic packaging technologies such as direct chip attachment as well as higher-cost specialty resins. Silicones can offer several functions to microelectronics ... 

Electronic Polymers to 2005, Research Report No. 1513, Electronics.ca Publications Inc., January 2002. 

One of the guiding principles underlying much of the physics in conventional polymers is that many macroscopic macromolecular properties, not least the structure formation, can be satisfactorily understood even when the details of single molecules are ignored [11]. As is discussed later in this review, this idea still remains relevant for the intermolecular self-organization of hairy-rod PFs and for their macroscopic alignment. However, much of the behavior seen in PFs (and virtually all other electronic polymers as well) is an excep-... 

Conjugated polymers are either electrical insulators or semiconductors, and those that can have their conductivity increased by several orders of magnitude above that of semiconductors are commonly referred to as electronic polymers. Indeed, the conductivity attainable by an electronic polymer has been increased infinitely by the discovery of superconductivity in regio-regular poly(3-hexylthiophene) at 2°K. 

The materials aspects of organic electronics, polymers, and solid state chemistry are described in the physical chemistry, macromolecular chemistry, and inorganic chemistry fields, respectively. 

Organic electronics. 2. Electronic devices—Materials. 3. Electronic polymers. I. So,... 

V.N. Prigodin and A.J. Epstein, Nature of insulator-metal transition and novel mechanism of charge transport in the metallic state of highly doped electronic polymers. Synth. Met., 125,43 (2002). 

Figure 4.6 Conductivity/temperature relationship for a 72 wt% blend fiber of Pan.HCSA in PEO. (Reprinted with permission from Synthetic Metals, Electrostatically-generated nanofibers of electronic polymers by A. G. MacDiarmid, W. Jones Jr., I. D. Norris et al., 119, 27-30. Copyright (2001) Elsevier Ltd)...

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