Modification of polythiophene by the incorporation of processable polymeric chains: Recent progress in synthesis and applications

Electrically conductive nanocomposite adhesives based on epoxy or chloroprene containing polyaniline, and carbon nanotubes

“…In this respect, polyaniline has attracted a great deal of interest, because of its good electrical conductivity, environmental stability, easy synthesis, and controllability of its electronic and optical properties through variation of the degree of oxidation and protonation, as well as the wide range of its applications [32][33][34][35]. In this study we blended polyaniline with epoxy/MWCNTs-PEG and chloroprene/ MWCNTs-DDc nanocomposites to increase the conductivity of the products.…”

Chemical and electrochemical grafting of polyaniline onto poly(vinyl chloride): synthesis, characterization, and materials properties

“…Moreover, other advantages of electrochemical method are simultaneous doping, entrapment of molecules in conductive polymers, and ease of synthesis. [1,2] As can be seen in Fig. 4a, the cyclic voltammetry curves of pure PANI shows three typical redox couples with anodic peaks at approximately 0.18, 0.40, and 0.67 V versus Ag/AgCl electrode.…”

“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Among various ICPs, polypyrrole (PPy), polythiophene (PTh), and polyaniline (PANI) are promising candidates to incorporate in practical applications, in part because of their enough stability under normal processing conditions and combination of unique physical and chemical processes (e.g., electron and energy transfer). [1,2,8] In this respect, PANI and its derivatives have many advantages over other conducting polymers, such as thermal stability up to 250°C, tunable electroactivity, high electrical conductivity, fast oxidation-reduction reactions, good environmental stability, high energy density, ease of synthesis, and low cost. [1,9,10] Moreover, PANI has a wide range of commercial and technological applications, such as chromate-free corrosion protection, [11] solidphase microextraction, [12] secondary batteries, [13] electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding, [14] solar cells, [15] sensors, [16] biomedical sciences, [17] organic light emitting electrorheological materials, [19] electrical memory performance, [20] and many more.…”

Conducting polymer: silver interface, morphology and properties

“…These compounds are characterized by significant environmental and thermal stability, high conductivity, and small band gap values [16][17][18][19]. Chemical structure of polythiophene permits wide range of modification without destruction of conjugated double bond system responsible for the unique electronic properties [20,21].…”

“…Recently synthesis of thiophene co-polymers with processable polymers was found to be interesting alternative to introduce valuable properties of conducting polymers to wider use [22,23]. It was found that the introduction of alkyl side chain of specific length results in the increase of solubility and processability of polythiophene [19]. On the other hand derivatives containing ionophore group such as carboxyl, sulphonic or tertiary ammine groups, can make the polymer water soluble [24].…”