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Base inhibited oxidative polymerization of 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene with iron(III)tosylate
- Source :
- Synthetic Metals. 152:1-4
- Publication Year :
- 2005
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2005.
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Abstract
- Very high conductivities (>1000 S/cm) were obtained in poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) films oxidized with Fe(III)tosylate when the acidity during the polymerization process was controlled using a basic inhibitor. The best results were obtained with pyridine as inhibitor. The films could either be polymerized from a solution of 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDT), Fe(III)tosylate and pyridine or by vapor phase polymerization (VPP) of EDT on a surface coated with Fe(III)tosylate and pyridine. By incorporating non-conducting adhesive (up to 75% vol.) in the vapor phase polymerized PEDT system, films with activation energy of 1/3 the value of pure PEDT, were obtained. The reason for this phenomenon could not be explained by changes in the PEDT structure investigated with grazing incidence X-ray diffraction.
- Subjects :
- chemistry.chemical_classification
Base (chemistry)
Mechanical Engineering
technology, industry, and agriculture
Metals and Alloys
Solution polymerization
Activation energy
Reaction inhibitor
Condensed Matter Physics
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
chemistry.chemical_compound
Sulfonate
chemistry
Polymerization
Mechanics of Materials
Pyridine
X-ray crystallography
Polymer chemistry
Materials Chemistry
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03796779
- Volume :
- 152
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Synthetic Metals
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........eb4c4303fbdce42a933a1f93e7cb7597