The method employed for depositing nanostructures of conducting polymers dictates potential uses in a variety of applications such as organic solar cells, light-emitting diodes, electrochromics, and sensors. A simple and scalable film fabrication technique that allows reproducible control of thickness, and morphological homogeneity at the nanoscale, is an attractive option for industrial applic...

Conducting polymers, because of their special properties, are used to introduce conductive polymeric composites. Also, clays have recently been used for preparation of polymer composites with enhanced mechanical and thermal properties. The aim of this work is to study the synergetic effect of the co-presence of conducting polyaniline and montmorillonite in the polyethylene matrix. Polyethylene ...

Conducting polymers, because of their special properties, are used to introduce conductive polymeric composites. Also, clays have recently been used for preparation of polymer composites with enhanced mechanical and thermal properties. The aim of this work is to study the synergetic effect of the co-presence of conducting polyaniline and montmorillonite in the polyethylene matrix. Polyethylene ...

The path-breaking discovery of high conductivity in polyacetylene in 1977 by A. J. Heeger, A. G. MacDiarmid and H. Shirakawa opened up a whole new field of research, which won them the Noble prize in the year 2000. Since then the field of conducting polymers has undergone tremendous developments and a wide range of commercial applications have evolved. Conducting polymers have found application...

During the last two decades conducting polymers were used for conductive coatings, for corrosion protection and as materials for sensors and separation membranes [1]. More recently it has been demonstrated that conducting polymers are applicable as an active layer in solar cells and organic light emitting diodes (OLED), see Fig. 1, [2-4]. In all applications the conducting polymers are used in ...

The past two decades have witnessed the discoveries of several new classes of novel electronic materials. Ranging from conducting polymers through charge transfer solids and inorganic chain compounds to organic and high temperature superconductors, these materials have in common two important, unusual properties. First, their electronic structures are strongly anisotropic, in some cases (e.g., ...

polypyrrole (ppy/cl) and polyaniline (pani/cl) synthesized chemically onto sawdust (sd)was used for removal of thiocyanate (scn-) ions from aqueous solutions. the effect of someimportant parameters such as ph, initial concentration, sorbent dosage, and contact time onuptake of scn- was investigated. ppy/sd was found to be much more effective sorbent thanpani/sd for uptake scn- from aqueous solu...