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Conductive polymer
About: Conductive polymer is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 21817 publications have been published within this topic receiving 692491 citations. The topic is also known as: intrinsically conducting polymer & ICP.
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TL;DR: The first and remarkably facile synthesis of optically active polyaniline has been achieved via the enantioselective electropolymerization of aniline on indium-tin-oxide-coated glass electrodes in aqueous solution containing (1S)-(+)- or (1R)-(−)-10-camphorsulfonic acid (HCSA) as mentioned in this paper.
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TL;DR: In this paper, polypyrrole thin films were deposited on different electrode substrates by cyclovoltammetric (CV), galvanostatic and potentiostatic deposition methods.
Abstract: Polypyrrole is one of the important conductive polymers that are widely used in energy storage systems, biosensors and electronics. The electrochemical synthesis of polypyrrole has advantages of simple process, mass production and low cost. In this study, polypyrrole thin films were deposited on different electrode substrates by cyclovoltammetric (CV), galvanostatic and potentiostatic deposition methods. Results demonstrated that the galvanostatic deposition method could provide higher electrochemical activity for the films. Different electrode materials including gold, glassy carbon and ink-made carbon composite electrodes were investigated for polypyrrole deposition. The conductive films on all substrates exhibited p-type conjugate polymer characteristics. However, the substrate properties had great impact on the stability of the deposited thin film and some composite carbon substrate materials demonstrate the best performance. The mechanism of the instability of polypyrrole was suggested. The study also demonstrates the feasibility of using carbon ink to make composite electrodes for possible applications in energy storage systems and electrochemical sensors. D 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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TL;DR: In this article, a study of the solution and solid-state electrochemical properties of defined oligomers of the α-thiophene and the p-phenylene series with chain lengths 2 ⩽ N ⌽ 16 is presented, and a new charge storage mechanism for conjugated oligomers and polymers is presented taking into account the morphology of the materials.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the role of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) in a hole conducting buffer polymer, polyethylene dioxythiophene (PEDOT), was investigated.
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TL;DR: Conducting polymers have become the focus of research due to their interesting properties, such as a wide range of conductivity, facile production, mechanical stability, light weight and low cost and the ease with which conducting polymers can be nanostructured to meet the specific application as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Conducting polymers have become the focus of research due to their interesting properties, such as a wide range of conductivity, facile production, mechanical stability, light weight and low cost and the ease with which conducting polymers can be nanostructured to meet the specific application. They have become valuable materials for many applications, such as energy storage and generation. Recently, conducting polymers have been studied for use in supercapacitors, batteries and fuel cells. This article is to briefly discuss the background & theory behind their conductivity as well as to highlight the recent contributions of conducting polymers to the field of energy. Furthermore, the methods of production of the conducting polymers in addition to the different ways utilised to nano-engineer special morphologies are discussed.
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