Electrically conducting polymers: from fundamental to applied research

Electrically Controlled Release of Dopamine from Nanoporous Conducting Polymers

Electrically conducting polymers: Materials of the twentyfirst century

The paper critically reviews some recent developments in the field of electrically conducting polymers which have grown very rapidly since the discovery that there is a very sharp increase in conductivity when intrinsically insulating organic conjugated polymers such as, polyacetylene are doped with oxidizing or reducing agents. These polymers, also called synthetic metals, combine the electric...

Applied RNAi: from fundamental research to therapeutic applications

One of the most exciting aspects of the genomic era during the last fifteen years has been the discovery of RNA interference pathways and their key function in gene regulation in eucaryotes. RNAi has rapidly invaded our laboratories and has become the gold standard technique to investigate the function of a given gene. In parallel, intensive research on microRNAs (miRNAs) has underlined their w...

Solitonic States in Organic Conducting Polymers

In a typical solitonic distribution, the soliton density is distributed over the entire moleculeand the present work shows how its density can be decomposed into solitonic and antisolitoniccomponents. It is found that there exists a unique electron as soliton over the anionicnanoconductor, while there are many other solitons and antisolitons. The solitonic states are furtherdecomposed to the ca...

Solitonic states in organic conducting polymers

In a typical solitonic distribution, the soliton density is distributed over the entire moleculeand the present work shows how its density can be decomposed into solitonic and antisolitoniccomponents. It is found that there exists a unique electron as soliton over the anionicnanoconductor, while there are many other solitons and antisolitons. The solitonic states are furtherdecomposed to the ca...