Studies from RIKEN Add New Findings in the Area of Materials Engineering

摘要

According to the authors of a study from Saitama, Japan, "In this work we present a general approach for bulk synthesis of various functionalized conducting polymer nano-networks. 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) dimers are used to initiate the chemical polymerization of functionalized EDOT in the solvent system with high polarity, which leads to better control of the oxidation polymerization. Under these reaction conditions, various functionalized EDOT monomers form polymeric nano-network structures."