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C ONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
HISTORY
CONDUCTING POLYMER
MECHANISM
CLASSIFICATION
APPLICATIONS
REFERENCES
Introduction
Most organic polymers are insulators by nature. Most of the polymers are
used for electrical insulation, as they are bad conductor of electricity.
Since these polymers do not possess large number of free electrons,
they do not conduct electricity. Conductivity in polymers is observed
because of different reasons. Accordingly they can be categorized into
different types.
H istory
Conducting polymer research dates back to the 1960s, when Pohl,
Katon, and their coworkers, first synthesized and characterized
semiconducting polymers . The discovery of the high conductivity of
polysulfurnitride (SN), a polymeric material containing interesting
electrical properties, was a step forward for research in conducting
polymers.
C ONDUCTING POLYMERS
Electrical conductivities are shown by few polymers because of it
fundamental characteristics. Such polymers are known as intrinsically
conducting polymers. However, intrinsically conducting polymers (ICPs)
have alternating single and double bonds along the polymer backbone
(conjugated bonds) or that are composed of aromatic rings such as
phenylene, naphthalene, anthracene, pyrrole, and thiophene which are
connected to one another through carbon-carbon single bonds.
S emiconducting polymers
Semiconducting polymers are described in terms of the energy bands
that originate from the bonding and anti-bonding energy levels
associated with the s-bonds between adjacent carbon atoms (formed
from the sp2 wavefunctions) and the orthogonal p-bonds that originate
from the pz wavefunctions. The s-bonds hold the structure together, but
the p-bonds are the origin of the properties that characterize conjugated
polymers as semiconductors
The thin film diode first described in 1987 provides a simple example of a
semiconductor device: the metal–semiconductor– metal (MSM) structure
comprised of a single layer of semiconducting polymer cast from solution
and sandwiched between metal contacts with different work functions
operates as a diode with relatively high rectification ratio.
M echanism
Conducting polymers are responsible for flow of electricity because of
their conjugation in ∏ bond system. Due to delocalization of electrons in
molecule the conjugated double bands allow to flow of more number of
electron. Delocalization is the condition in which ∏ bonding electrons are
spread over a number of atoms rather than localized between 2 atoms.
This condition permits electrons to travel more easily making the
electrically conducting polymers.
Doping increases. Values as high as 102 - 104 S/m have been reported.
Another method to increase conductivity is mechanical alignment of the
polymer chains. In the case of polyacetylene, conductivities as high as
105 S/m have been found which is still several magnitudes lower than the
conductivity of silver and copper (108 S/m) but more than sufficient for
electronic applications such as polymer-based transistors, light-emitting
diodes and lasers.
Poly(p-phenylene
vinylene) ( 1979) 3.0
Polyaniline
(1980) 2.5 3 - 5 103
30 — 200
Classification
Poly(acetylene)s
The first conducting polymer synthesised was poly(acetylene). The
first reports on acetylene polymers date back to the last century.
Cuprene, a highly crosslinked and extremely irregular product of
acetylene polymerisation in the presence of copper- containing
catalysts being a typical example for the initial efforts.
Poly(acetylene) is the simplest conjugated polymer. In its linear
form it precipitates as a black, air sensitive, infusible and intractable
powder out of solution and can not be processed. Ant et al. were
the first to polymerise acetylene in hexane using a mixed catalyst of
alkyl aluminium and titanium tetraalkoxides:
Poly(diacetylene)s
Oxidative coupling
Organometallic coupling
Cycloaddition reactions
Poly(phenylene vinylene)s
Poly(phenylene vinylene) (PPV) possess a chemical structure
which is intermediate between that of poly(acetylene) and
poly(phenylene). Oriented PPV is highly crystalline, mechanically
strong and environmentally stable. Early attempts utilised
dehydrohalogenation or Wittig condensation reactions which
resulted in the formation of intractable oligomeric powders. The
Wessling-Zimmermann precursor is a water-soluble PPV
prepolymer (cf. Durham route) which allows the reproducible
formation of high molecular weight free standing films.
PPVs were originally synthesised via the popular Gilch route which
uses the bis(chloromethyl)benzene precursor monomer in THF in
the presence of t-butoxide as non-nucleophilic base. The reaction
leads to a rather il-defined product with limited conjugation length
and defects along the polymer backbone. The precursor sulfonium
electrolyte is prepared in aqueous solution (Wessling route to PPV,
less defects, longer conjugation, milder) by the base induced
polymerisation of the appropriate bis-sulfonium monomer. The
polymerisation is quenched by addition of dilute acid and the
reaction mixture is then dialysed against water to separate the high
molecular weight fraction as well as the sodium and chloride ions. A
study of the polymerisation mechanism revealed the existence of a
quinoid intermediate during the early stages of the polymerisation.
An alternative radical mechanism has been considered but ruled
out by the experimental evidence.
Oligomers
Drawn PPV films were analysed by X-ray diffraction and NMR. The
results demonstrated that the average tilt of the phenylene ring
relative to the chain axis was 7.7o, close but not exactly equal to the
9.2o predicted for a trans-stilbene-like structure. Highly oriented PPV
shows high electrical conductivity upon vapour-phase doping with
AsF5 but iodine doped films show only modest conductivities.
Poly(pyrrole)s
Poly(pyrrole) prepared by the Stille coupling/thermolysis sequence.
Poly(aniline)s
Oxidation of aniline is the most widely employed synthetic
route to polyaniline and can be performed either
electrochemically or chemically. The reaction is usually
carried out in acidic medium with a chemical oxidising
agents such as ammoniumpersulfate. Branching or even
crosslinking during polymerisation occurs through the
formation of radicals at the 2 and 6 position.
Field-Effect Transistors
Field-effect transistors (FETs) were among the first semiconductor-
based devices fabricated with a conducting polymer. A FET is a simple
device composed of three contacts (source, drain, and gate), a
dielectric layer, and a semiconducting layer (Fig. 1a). FETs act
essentially as electronic valves, by modulating the semiconductor
channel conductance via the gate field. In this device structure the
current flow between the source and the drain electrodes is controlled
by the application of two independent biases, one between the source
and the drain (Vd) and one between the source and the gate (Vg).
Light-Emitting Diodes
In 1990 the Cambridge group led by Richard Friend reported the
emission of light from a semiconducting polymer sandwiched between
two contacts and connected to a battery.54 426 B. de Boer and A.
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October 2014 The discovery of electroluminescence (EL) in conjugated
polymers, i.e., the emission of light upon electron-hole recombination
as the result of an electric current flown, has provided a new impetus
for the development of polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs). These
elements are fundamental for display and other applications.55 In
PLEDs and in OLEDs (organic LEDs), the latter being their small
molecule-based equivalents, the holes and electrons injected from the
device contacts recombine and produce luminescence with a
wavelength (color) dictated by the energy difference between the
molecular excited and ground states.
Photovoltaic Cells
Two years after the PLED breakthrough at Cambridge, the Santa
Barbara group reported the first results on polymer-based photovoltaic
cells,56,57 of which the principles can be regarded as the inverse of the
EL process. In photovoltaic (PV) devices, bound electron – hole pairs
(excitons) are created upon illumination. To convert the absorbed light
into electricity, the excitons must first dissociate into the separate
charges which then have to be collected at the device contacts (holes at
the anode and electrons at the cathode). This process is possible thanks
to the use of contacts with different work functions enabling the
formation of a built-in potential field within the device.
CHEMISTOR
a Chemiresistor is simply formed by two electrodes as contact
points with the conducting polymer (CP) put onto an insulate
substrate. When applying a constant current, the probable
difference occurs on the electrodes represents the response
output signal.
Field-Effect Transistor (FET)
The interaction among the neutral gases and organic semi-
conductors has been utilized as the principle of transduction in
Field-Effect Transistor (FET) sensors from the late 1980s
(Josowicz & Janata, 1986), while it has been almost uncared for
within non-sensing applications.
For the TFT the current flows throughout a conducting polymer
(CP) that its conductivity produced from the reaction with the
analytes and/or by the electric fields. So, it can be said that the
response signal depends on two things; the work function and the
conductivity of the Conducting Polymer.
Corrosion
Conducting polymers of various forms will be electrodeposited
onto oxidisable metals and electrochemical and environmental
means will be used to access their applicably for corrosion
protection.
Polyaniline (Pani) and its derivatives (Bernard etal 2006) are
among the most frequently studied CPs used for corrosion
protection. In addition, the use of PANI for corrosion protection of
metals has been of wide interest since the works by (DeBerry
1988; Mengoli et al. 1981) reporting that electro active coatings of
the Pani could provide adequate protection against corrosion of
stainless steels and iron sheets, respectively. Ever since,
numerous studies have been published in which various CPs in
different configurations were evaluated for corrosion protection of
different metals and alloys: mild steel.
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