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Article: Electrical conductivity and optical properties of poly(3-thiophene boronic acid) organic semiconductor.(Report)
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- Polymer Engineering and Science
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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INTRODUCTION
The semiconducting and conducting polymers, which have conjugated structure such as polyaniline, polypyrrole, and polythiophene, have been used in an increasing number of applications (1). The electrical and optical properties of conjugated polymers can be improved by doping with a suitable oxidizing reagent and by changing organic groups in the structure of the chemical of the polymers. Classically, polythiophene has been synthesized electrochemically, where thiophene or bithiophene monomers are polymerized oxidatively at the anode or by chemical polymerization. Only the former method has been successful when preparing devices or films for physical ...