- Contains three new chapters, including one exploring processing and device fabrication
- Fully details the polymer chemistry behind the properties induced
- Explores new applications and technologies, such as electronic noses and artificial muscles
- Includes examples that show how manipulating the structure and properties of CEPs can lead to materials with valuable sensing, processing, and actuating properties
Building on the standard-setting first edition, Conductive Electroactive Polymers: Intelligent Materials Systems, Second Edition provides a thorough, up-to-date introduction to conductive electroactive polymers. The authors discuss the parameters that affect the formation of important CEPs, including polypyrroles, polyanilines, and polythiophenes. They show how to use these parameters to manipulate the properties of the polymers, and they clarify the chemical and energy parameters that determine the structure and its properties.
New in this edition are more details on polythiphene and polyaniline systems, an update on progress in polypyrroles, and reports on recent advances in CEP processing techniques and device fabrication.
As the use of intelligent materials grows, it becomes increasingly important for scientists and engineers in fields ranging from materials science to electronics and biomedicine to understand the properties and potential of CEPs. This book is an outstanding introduction to conducting polymers and a valuable reference that brings you quickly up to date on recent developments.
Contents
- Introduction
- What are Intelligent Material Systems and Structures
- Identifying Macromolecular Building Blocks
- Academic Research in Conducting Polymers
- Spin-Offs
- Electrochemical Switching, Energy Storage, and Conversion
- Polymer Photovoltaics
- Display Technologies
- Separation Technologies
- Cellular Communications
- Controlled Release Devices
- Corrosion Protection
- Chemical Sensors
- Physical Sensors
- Communication and characterization Tools
- Scanning Probe Microscopy
- Raman and UV-Visible Spectroscopy
- Conclusions
- Assembly of Polypyrroles
- Synthesis and Structure of Polypyrroles
- Electropolymerization: A Complex Process Oversimplified
- The Polymerization Environment and Cell Design
- Chemical Polymerization
- The Quest for Extra Functionality
- Molecular Structure and Microstructure
- Surface Morphology and Film Density
- Properties of Polypyrroles
- Electrical Properties - Conductivity
- Switching Properties
- Chemical and Biochemical Properties
- Optical Properties of PPys
- Chiroptical Properties of Optically Active PPys
- Mechanical Properties of PPys
- Conclusions
- Synthesis of Polyanilines
- Electrochemical Polymerization
- Chemical Polymerization
- Photochemically Initiated Polymerization
- Enzyme-Catalized Polymerization
- Polymerization Using Electron Acceptors
- Miscellaneous Polymerization Methods
- Routes to more Processible Polyanilines
- Postpolymerization Modification - Enhancing Functionality
- Structure of Polyaniline
- References
- Properties of Polyanilines
- Electrical Properties
- Mechanical Properties of Polyaniline
- Circular Dichroism Spectra
- Synthesis and Properties of Polythiophenes
- Synthesis of Polythiophene
- Structure of Polythiophenes
- Properties of Polythiophenes
- Mechanical Properties of Polythiophenes
- Optical Properties of Polythiophenes
- Processing and Device Fabrication
- Integration/Fabrication after Polymerization
- Assembly of Conducting Polymers in Host Matrices
- Device Fabrication
Index
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