Electrically conducting polymer.

Stimulation of neurite outgrowth using an electrically conducting polymer.

Damage to peripheral nerves often cannot be repaired by the juxtaposition of the severed nerve ends. Surgeons have typically used autologous nerve grafts, which have several drawbacks including the need for multiple surgical procedures and loss of function at the donor site. As an alternative, the use of nerve guidance channels to bridge the gap between severed nerve ends is being explored. In ...

Interdiffusion and Spinodal Decomposition in Electrically Conducting Polymer Blends

The impact of phase morphology in electrically conducting polymer composites has become essential for the efficiency of the various functional applications, in which the continuity of the electroactive paths in multicomponent systems is essential. For instance in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells, where the light-induced electron transfer through photon absorption creating excitons (elect...

Electrically Charged Conducting Drops Revisited

Since its publication in 1882, Rayleigh's work on electrically charged conducting drops has been widely quoted, but its rigorous derivation has not been given in the literature. By means of the domain perturbation technique, this work presents a rigorous derivation of Rayleigh's results, following his approach with Lagrange's equation. With the systematic procedure, it becomes explicit that the...

Evaluation of current distribution induced on perfect electrically conducting scatterers

Modifying thermal transport in electrically conducting polymers: effects of stretching and combining polymer chains.

If their thermal conductivity can be lowered, polyacetylene (PA) and polyaniline (PANI) offer examples of electrically conducting polymers that can have potential use as thermoelectrics. Thermal transport in such polymers is primarily influenced by bonded interactions and chain orientations relative to the direction of heat transfer. We employ molecular dynamics simulations to investigate two m...