ABSTRACT

This book covers properties, processing, and applications of conducting polymers. It discusses properties and characterization, including photophysics and transport. It then moves to processing and morphology of conducting polymers, covering such topics as printing, thermal processing, morphology evolution, conducting polymer composites, thin films

chapter 1|20 pages

Conjugated Polymer- Based OFET Devices

ByMark Nikolka, Henning Sirringhaus

chapter 2|23 pages

Electrical Doping of Organic Semiconductors with Molecular Oxidants and Reductants

ByStephen Barlow, Seth R. Marder, Xin Lin, Fengyu Zhang, Antoine Kahn

chapter 3|84 pages

Electric Transport Properties in PEDOT Thin Films

ByNara Kim, Ioannis Petsagkourakis, Shangzhi Chen, Magnus Berggren, Xavier Crispin, Magnus P. Jonsson, Igor Zozoulenko

chapter 4|31 pages

Thermoelectric Properties of Conjugated Polymers

ByKelly A. Peterson, Eunhee Lim, Michael L. Chabinyc

chapter 5|39 pages

Electrochemistry of Conducting Polymers

ByP. Audebert, F. Miomandre

chapter 6|48 pages

Electrochromism in Conjugated Polymers – Strategies for Complete and Straightforward Color Control

ByAnna M. Österholm, D. Eric Shen, John R. Reynolds

chapter 7|28 pages

Mechanical Properties of Semiconducting Polymers

ByMohammad A. Alkhadra, Andrew T. Kleinschmidt, Samuel E. Root, Daniel Rodriquez, Adam D. Printz, Suchol Savagatrup, Darren J. Lipomi

chapter 9|29 pages

Organic Electro-Optic Materials

ByLarry Dalton

chapter 11|39 pages

Poly(3-alkylthiophenes): Controlled Manipulation of Microstructure and its Impact on Charge Transport

ByMichael McBride, Guoyan Zhang, Martha Grover, Elsa Reichmanis

chapter 12|35 pages

Microstructural Characterization of Conjugated Organic Semiconductors by X-Ray Scattering

ByMaged Abdelsamie, Michael F. Toney

chapter 13|32 pages

Soft X-Ray Scattering Characterization of Polymer Semiconductors

ByLong Ye, Samuel J. Stuard, Harald Ade

chapter 14|25 pages

Morphology Evolution and Interfacial Design of Conjugated Polymer-Based Photovoltaics

ByYao Liu, Thomas P. Russell

chapter 15|30 pages

The Relevance of Solubility and Miscibility for the Performance of Organic Solar Cells

ByStefan Langner, Jose Dario Perea Ospina, Chaohong Zhang, Ning Li, Christoph J. Brabec

chapter 17|25 pages

Conjugated Polymer Thin Films for Stretchable Electronics

ByAristide Gumyusenge, William McNutt, Jianguo Mei

chapter 18|26 pages

Conducting Polymers for Electrochemical Capacitors

ByLuciano M. Santino, Yang Lu, Yifan Diao, Hongmin Wang, Julio M. D’Arcy

chapter 19|8 pages

Redox-Active Polymers as an Organic Energy Storage Material

ByKenichi Oyaizu, Hiroyuki Nishide

chapter 20|34 pages

Electrochromics: Processing of Conjugated Polymers and Device Fabrication on Semi-Rigid, Flexible, and Stretchable Substrates

ByMatthew Baczkowski, Sneh Sinha, Mengfang Li, Gregory Sotzing

chapter 21|49 pages

Separation Techniques Using Conjugated Polymers

ByCheng-Wei Lin, Wai H. Mak, Brian T. McVerry, Richard B. Kaner

chapter 22|18 pages

Organic Bioelectronics Based on Mixed Ion–Electron Conductors

ByMagnus Berggren, Erik O. Gabrielsson, Daniel T. Simon, Klas Tybrandt

chapter 23|46 pages

Conducting and Conjugated Polymers for Biosensing Applications

ByC. Pitsalidis, A.M. Pappa, C.M. Moysidou, D. Iandolo, R.M. Owens

chapter 24|39 pages

Conjugated Poly/­Oligo-Electrolytes for Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

ByLingyun Zhou, Guillermo C. Bazan, Shu Wang

chapter 25|30 pages

Biomedical Applications of Organic Conducting Polymers

ByAlexander R. Harris, Paul J. Molino, Caiyun Wang, Gordon G. Wallace, Zhilian Yue