From Giant Vesicles to Filaments and Wires: Templates for Conducting Polymers

摘要

Conducting organic polymers and their composites have been studied extensively as electroactive materials in recent years. Much of the work in this field has been focused on poly acetylene, polythiophene, polypyrrole (PPY), and poly-aniline (PANI). Potential applications of these polymers include use in polymeric batteries, membranes, light-emitting diodes, sensing devices, actuators circuits, and biosensors. New methods have been exploited to prepare well-organized micro- and nanosized macromolecular structures, some of which have produced conducting organic polymers with special physico-chemical properties. One simple method to make arrays of conducting polymers with well-defined properties utilizes Langmuir-Blodgett techniques. Researchers have utilized the self-assembling properties of amphiphilic polymers to obtain multilayers with a high degree of order at the molecular level.