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Synthesis and Characterization of Organic Conducting Polymers for Advanced Materials
Subject area: Science,Engineering and Technology · Area of research: Organic Conducting Polymers
Abstract
Polymeric materials have become integral to the development of modern technology. They are lightweight, mechanically robust, highly tunable, and find widespread application in electronic, energy, sensing and biological systems. Among functional polymeric materials, organic conducting polymers are significant as they offer the unique combination of mechanical attributes typical of commodity polymers and the electrical and optical properties known to be present in inorganic conductors. These conjugated polymer systems possess highly extended delocalized electron networks which transport electric charge. Charge transport and tunable electronic properties lead to conductive polymers such as polyaniline (PANI), polypyrrole (PPy), polythiophene (PT), poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT), of tremendous importance in modern and next-generation advanced materials (Heeger, 2001). However, current conductive materials possess inherent limitations in their mechanical flexibility, processing requirements, electrical conductivity, stability under environmental stresses, etc, therefore light-weight flexible robust organic conductive polymers are extremely beneficial for many applications that go beyond conventional solid-state devices and for next generation systems. This conceptual research work puts forth a research strategy on synthesis and characterization of organic conductive polymers utilizing the approaches, like chemical and electrochemical polymerization, modulation of polymer backbones via modification strategies, and regulated doping approach so that conductivity and other properties of the materials will be improved. The conceptual scheme also includes the detailed structure studies of the prepared polymers by using different analytical techniques including FTIR, NMR, UV-Vis, XRD, scanning and transmission electron microscopic images and thermal analysis methods for their molecular structural, morphological, crystalline and stable behavior and to analyze their electrical conductive properties. Mechanical property studies, electron transport mechanism analysis and stability against environment are proposed for different conducting polymer materials. The contribution of this conceptual investigation would be the development of novel advanced conductive polymers with better structural and property correlation, and applicability on organic devices, electronic sensing, energy storing device, bio-medical uses, chemical and biological sensor and flexibility electronics etc. Thus, the study of organic conductive polymers synthesis, analysis, application is a successful method toward innovative and useful materials in modern days.
Keywords
Conducting polymers, Organic electronics, Polymer synthesis, Polyaniline, Polypyrrole, Characterization
How to cite this paper
@article{1722988,
author = {Dr. K. S. Lamani},
title = {Synthesis and Characterization of Organic Conducting Polymers for Advanced Materials},
journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
year = {2019},
volume = {2},
number = {7},
pages = {301-309},
issn = {2456-8880},
url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1722988.pdf},
abstract = {Polymeric materials have become integral to the development of modern technology. They are lightweight, mechanically robust, highly tunable, and find widespread application in electronic, energy, sensing and biological systems. Among functional polymeric materials, organic conducting polymers are significant as they offer the unique combination of mechanical attributes typical of commodity polymers and the electrical and optical properties known to be present in inorganic conductors. These conjugated polymer systems possess highly extended delocalized electron networks which transport electric charge. Charge transport and tunable electronic properties lead to conductive polymers such as polyaniline (PANI), polypyrrole (PPy), polythiophene (PT), poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT), of tremendous importance in modern and next-generation advanced materials (Heeger, 2001). However, current conductive materials possess inherent limitations in their mechanical flexibility, processing requirements, electrical conductivity, stability under environmental stresses, etc, therefore light-weight flexible robust organic conductive polymers are extremely beneficial for many applications that go beyond conventional solid-state devices and for next generation systems. This conceptual research work puts forth a research strategy on synthesis and characterization of organic conductive polymers utilizing the approaches, like chemical and electrochemical polymerization, modulation of polymer backbones via modification strategies, and regulated doping approach so that conductivity and other properties of the materials will be improved. The conceptual scheme also includes the detailed structure studies of the prepared polymers by using different analytical techniques including FTIR, NMR, UV-Vis, XRD, scanning and transmission electron microscopic images and thermal analysis methods for their molecular structural, morphological, crystalline and stable behavior and to analyze their electrical conductive properties. Mechanical property studies, electron transport mechanism analysis and stability against environment are proposed for different conducting polymer materials. The contribution of this conceptual investigation would be the development of novel advanced conductive polymers with better structural and property correlation, and applicability on organic devices, electronic sensing, energy storing device, bio-medical uses, chemical and biological sensor and flexibility electronics etc. Thus, the study of organic conductive polymers synthesis, analysis, application is a successful method toward innovative and useful materials in modern days.},
keywords = {Conducting polymers, Organic electronics, Polymer synthesis, Polyaniline, Polypyrrole, Characterization},
month = {January},
}