Conducting Polymers, Fundamentals and Applications: A Practical Approach

✍ Scribed by Prasanna Chandrasekhar (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 740
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Conducting polymers (CPs) is a relatively new field utilizing the unique electronic properties of a class of easily synthesized, primarily organic materials with the predominant property of high and controllable conductivity and subsidiary properties emanating from this conductivity and the associated causative electronic structure.
Conducting Polymers, Fundamentals and Applications: A PracticalApproach deals with the practical fundamentals and applications of conducting polymers. Written from a pedagogical point of view and at a very basic level this book provides a thorough grounding in CPs. Readers will find this book may be used as the basis for further work, as a reference, or as a text supplementing advanced undergraduate- or graduate-level courses.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Basics of Conducting Polymers (CPs)....Pages 3-22
Semiconductor Models for CPs....Pages 23-42
Basic Electrochromics of CPs....Pages 43-76
Electrochemistry of CPs....Pages 77-99
Advanced Polymerization Concepts....Pages 101-142
Conduction Models for CPs....Pages 143-172
Theoretical Treatments of CPs....Pages 173-206
Solubility and Processing of CPs....Pages 207-227
Structural Aspects, Morphology and Fiber/Film Processing....Pages 229-252
“Composites” (Blends) and Copolymers....Pages 253-274
Characterization Methods and Salient Results: Part 1....Pages 275-327
Characterization Methods and Salient Results: Part 2....Pages 329-370
Classes of CPs: Part 1....Pages 371-391
Classes of CPs: Part 2....Pages 393-429
Front Matter....Pages 431-431
Batteries....Pages 433-452
Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)....Pages 453-482
Sensors....Pages 483-508
Electro-Optic and Optical Devices....Pages 509-526
Microwave-and Conductivity-Based Technologies....Pages 527-541
Electrochromic Devices....Pages 543-562
Front Matter....Pages 431-431
Electrochemomechanical and Chemomechanical Devices....Pages 563-572
Corrosion Protection....Pages 573-589
Semiconductor-, Lithography-, and Electrically-Related Applications....Pages 591-625
Catalysis and Drug/-Chemical Delivery....Pages 627-635
Membranes....Pages 637-644
Back Matter....Pages 645-719

✦ Subjects

Characterization and Evaluation of Materials