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What is Conducting Polymers (CPs)

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Properties, Techniques, and Applications of Polyaniline (PANI) Thin Films: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Conducting polymers are organic polymers which conduct electricity. These can be conductor or semiconductor in nature. The most significant advantage of CPs is their processability, mainly by conjugation. Conductive polymers are generally not thermoplastics. But, like insulating polymers, they are organic materials. They can offer high electrical conductivity but do not show similar mechanical properties to other commercially available polymers.
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Introduction of PANI Thin Films
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9896-1.ch001
Abstract
In all conducting polymers (CPs), polyaniline (PANI) is one of the most thoroughly studied CPs. An essential feature of PANI is that its repeating units have two different moieties in different weights: oxidized and reduced state. In light of this element, PANI might be doped to get new molecular structures with various properties. It is considered as a (p-type) material, since it has excellent mechanical flexibility and environmental stability, and its conductivity could be controlled with acid/base (doping/undoping), it has potential applications in numerous fields, for example, lightweight battery electrodes, electromagnetic shielding devices, anti-corrosion coatings, and sensors. This chapter is focused on PANI as a leading polymer and brief synthesis of PANI thin films by the diverse strategies pursued by various applications in different fields.
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