Polythiophene 3,4-dimethyl

Early studies showed that polymers possessing some regiospecificity exhibit improved electrical and magnetic properties when compared to random polythiophenes [234]. In this instance, P3ATs 56 were synthesized by polymerization of 3,3 -dialkyl-2,2 -bithiophene 55 as shown in Scheme 55. Polymerization either electrochemically or via Lewis acid yielded predominantly HH-coupled polymers whose absorption maxima blue shifted -90 nm for 3,3,-dimethyl-2,2 -... 

CNT/hexafluoroisopro-panol-substituted polythiophene (HFIP-PT) or poly(3-hexylthiophene) Solution mixing Spin coating Hexanol, toluene, chloroform, dichloro-methane, methanol, water, and dimethyl methylphosphonate (DMMP) [72]... 

Polymerization of TOT, TTOTT and TTTOTTT leads to polymers characterized by the presence of one nonaromatic thienyl-5, S-dioxide moiety every two, four and six aromatic thienyl units. Table 4.2 shows that the oxidation potentials of the polymers (1.10, 1.08 and 0.98 V vs SCE, respectively) vary within a much smaller range than that of the corresponding oligomers and that they are comparable to those of polythiophene and alkylated polythiophenes. For example, poly(3,4-dimethyl)- and poly(3,4-diethyl)thiophenes have oxidation peak potentials of 1.00 and 1.10 V vs SCE, respectively [34]. Also, the range of variation of the reduction potentials is narrow (—1.20, —1.34 and —1.35 V vs SCE), but all the values are... 

Some studies have been focused on the color contrast improvements of various polythiophene derivatives. It was shown that the color contrast of the electrochromic copolymers prepared from EDOT and diclofenac (DCF) through a cyclic voltammetric method differs in the presence of different surfactants. The color of the copolymer was changed from neutral yellow to brown and to violet in 0.1 M KCl medium, resulting in high contrast colors in the presence of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) as a surfactant [76]. One other improvement for the contrast of the color of dimethyl-substituted poly(3,4-propylenedioxythiophene), with a bandgap of 1.6 eV, was obtained by Welsh et al. It possessed a color efficiency of 78 %, was found... 

Structural studies of polymer surfaces. Materials that have been studied include PMMA [239], PMMA-polypyrrole composites [240], polyfchloromethyl styrene) honnd 1,4,8,11-tetrazacyclotetradecane, polyfchloromethyl styrene) honnd thenoyl triflnoroacetone [241], poly(dimethyl siloxane)-polyamide copolymers [242], PS [243], ion-implanted PE [244], monoazido-terminated polyethylene oxide [245], polynrethanes [246], polyaniline [247], flnorinated polymer films [248], poly(o-tolnidine) [249], polyetherimide and poly benzimidazole [250], polyfnllerene palladinm [251], imidazole-containing imidazolylethyl maleamic acid-octadecyl vinyl ether copolymer [252], polyphenylene vinylene ether [253], thiophene oligomers [254], flnorinated styrene-isoprene derivative of a methyl methacrylate-hydroxyethyl methacrylate copolymer [255], polythiophene [256], dibromoalkane-hexaflnorisopropylidene diphenol and bisphenol A [257], and geopolymers [258]. 

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Certain polymers, such as polyaniline, in their neutral form are soluble in A/-methyl pyrrolidone (NMP) [2], A/,A/-dimethylpropylene urea (DMPU) [3], and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). Films of neutral polymer can be cast from these solutions. Chemical modification of monomers has proved to be effective in enhancing the modification solubility, especially with polythiophene [4,5]. In other instances, such as poly(p-phenylenevinylene), processibility has been achieved by synthesizing solu-tion-processible precursors, which could be subsequently converted to the conjugated polymer [6]. Nonetheless these techniques have failed to provide a method... 

New sensors have also been developed for chemical nerve agents and nerve agent analogues or simulators. The detection of a nerve agent analogue, pinacolyl methylphosphonate (PMP), has been demonstrated using an electrochemically, molecularly-imprinted polymer (MIP) polythiophene film set on a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) transducer surface. " A nerve gas sensor for dimethyl methylphosphonate (DMMP) has also been based on chemically (p-phenylenediamine)-reduced graphene... 

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