1. New conducting polymers: PF6-doped XYZ-triheterocycles based on X, Y, Z= thiophene, furan and n-methylpyrrole
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Allan J. McKinley, Michael P. Cava, Jason L. Cain, Makarand V. Joshi, Robert M. Metzger, and Martin G. Bakker
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Conductive polymer ,Materials science ,Mechanical Engineering ,Doping ,Metals and Alloys ,Conductivity ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Polaron ,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials ,law.invention ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,Mechanics of Materials ,law ,Furan ,Polymer chemistry ,Materials Chemistry ,Thiophene ,Physical chemistry ,Charge carrier ,Electron paramagnetic resonance - Abstract
A number of triheterocycles XYZ, where X, Y, Z = furan (O), thiophene (S), or N-methylpyrrole (N) were prepared, and the polymers, obtained by oxidizing them with NOPF6, were studied by four-probe DC conductivity and EPR. SSS has a conductivity of 2.4 S cm−1 at room temperature, and 0.0075 spin/triheterocycle, while SOS has a conductivity of 0.2 S cm−1 and 0.15 spins/triheterocycle; both have narrow Lorentzian EPR lineshapes. The other samples had conductivities below the measurement threshold (10−5 S cm−1). We postulate that NOPF6 overoxidized the polymers, thereby creating more bipolarons than polarons, and reducing the number of charge carriers. more...
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- 1993
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