Chemical Control of Processibility, Electromagnetic Response and Other Propertiesof Polyanilines and their Application to Technology

摘要

Polyaniline is one of the oldest known synthetic organic polymers. It was firstreported in 1862 and was described in 1910-12 as existing in four different oxidation states each of which was an octamer. Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in the interest in these polymers. Since 1985, more than 1,000 papers and patents have been published concerning the polyanilines. The system has been under increasing study for technological applications since it is air stable in both the insulating and conducting forms and is readily prepared from common starting materials. The polyanilines refer to the class of polymers consisting of reduced (-NH-C6H4-NH-C6H4-) and oxidized (-N=C6H4=N-C6H4-) repeat units.