Introduction of Conductive Polymers

The people’s traditional concept of insulating polymer materials was broken by the discovery of polyacetylene in the 1970s, and the new era of conductive polymers (CPs) was opened. In general, CPs own the π-conjugated system with alternating single (σ) and double (π) bonds, as results in their inherent electrical/electronic, electrochemical, and optical properties. The electrical mechanism mainly consists of charge carrier transport models, multiscale charge transport, and multilevel investigation of charge transport. The influence of the doping and film morphology on the electrical properties was described. And the electrochemical properties are composed of reversible oxidation/reduction, pseudocapacitance, and electrochromism. Furthermore, the wettability of conductive polymers and the classical examples such as polyacetylene, polythiophene, and polypyrrole were introduced.

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  1. College of Material Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China Yanmin Wang
  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China Wei Feng
  1. Yanmin Wang