Electronically conductive polymers

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. 

Conducting Polymers Electronically conducting polymers (such as polypyrrole, polythiophene, and polyaniline) have attracted considerable attention due to their ability to switch reversibly between the positively charged conductive state and a neutral, essentially insulating, form and to incorporate and expel anionic species (from and to the surrounding solution), upon oxidation or reduction ... 

Pickup, P. G. Electrochemistry of Electronically Conducting Polymer Films 33... 

Charge transfer kinetics for electronically conducting polymer formation, 583 Charge transport in polymers, 567 Chemical breakdown model for passivity, 236... 

Electron transfer mechanism Butler-Volmer kinetics and, 587 in electronically conducting polymers, 568... 

Impedance, for measurement of the potential of zero charge, 35 Impedance blocks, for polypyrrole, 577 Impedance spectroscopy of electronically conducting polymers, 576 Indium... 

Quantum chemical calculations, 172 Quantum chemical method, calculations of the adsorption of water by, 172 Quantum mechanical calculations for the metal-solution interface (Kripsonsov), 174 and water adsorption, 76 Quartz crystal micro-balance, used for electronically conducting polymer formation, 578... 

This volume contains six chapters and a cumulative index for numbers 1-33. The topics covered include the potential of zero charge nonequilibrium fluctuation in the corrosion process conducting polymers, electrochemistry, and biomimicking processes microwave (photo)-electrochemistry improvements in fluorine generation and electronically conducting polymer films. 

The final chapter, by Peter Pickup of Memorial University of Newfoundland, gives a comprehensive account of the major and rapidly developing field of the electrochemistry of electronically conducting polymers and their applications. Following the discovery of these materi-... 

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