The Electrochemistry of Polyacetylene

Although it was initially believed that polyacetylene was unstable in contact with water under all conditions, it has been successfully chemically doped in aqueous solutions with no apparent degradation of the material [82] and its electrochemistry has also been investigated [135-137] from which it is clear that no degradation occurs in concentrated aqueous electrolytes. Reaction with water can occur under some circumstances however giving rise to sp3 carbons and carbonyl-type structures [129, 138-141], 

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In order to understand the way polymer-coated electrodes function, a few results on the modification of carriers by electrochemically active, low molecular weight compounds are included (for more details see The electrochemistry of polyacetylene is also mentioned. Coatings of pyropolymers obtained by high temperature treatment of electrochemically inactive and insulating saturated polymers are omitted from this article, as are graphite and its modification. 

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