Highly Conductive Polypyrrole Copolymers?

✍ Scribed by Karen Lienkamp; Gerhard Wegner

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 88 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1022-1336
• DOI: 10.1002/marc.200700100

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

In a recent publication by Akar and co‐workers (Eur. Polym. J. 2006, 42, 2361), it was claimed that bulk polypyrrole with a conductivity of 4 000 S · cm^−1^ was obtained by a simple chemical synthesis. If reproducible, this would be a quite revolutionary result for the polymer electronics community. In this communication, we report that this result is not reproducible, and demonstrate, by comparison to literature results, that it is also not plausible.