Self-doped polymers polyacetylenes

These quarternized polymers can be viewed as self-doped but exhibit relatively low intrinsic conductivities. The polymers can be oxidatively doped with iodine, or reductively doped with TTF, to give highly conducting polyacetylenes with conductivities of 10"4 and 10 1 S/cm, respectively. One additional attractive feature of this system is that, unlike PA, these quarternized PAs are very stable in air. 

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