ABSTRACT
Conducting polymers are attracting widespread interest due to their potential applications in lighting, displays, solar cells, sensors, and bioelectronics, and for their compatibility with high volume manufacturing on flexible plastic substrates. However, with the latest generation of conducting polymers now nearing application-viable levels of performance, an urgent need has arisen for new quality-assured production methods that can scale to industrially useful quantities while providing reliable batch-to-batch reproducibility in terms of stoichiometry, molecular weight, and structural order. In this chapter we review efforts to address the controlled, scalable synthesis of conducting polymers via flow chemistry, drawing attention to both the advantages and the challenges of such an approach.
