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Electronic Properties of Conjugated Polymers

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Conjugated polymers such as polyacetylene and polyparaphenylene are semiconductors which can be chemically doped to give very high values of electrical conductivity (up to 1000 Ω cm-1). There has been a considerable theoretical and experimental effort directed towards understanding the way in which dopants add charges to the polymer chains, and the nature of the transport processes that can then occur. The addition of charges to a conjugated chain causes the formation of localised defect states; these may be soliton states for trans-polacetylene, or more generally polaron or bipolaron states. These defect states are considered to control the transport, magnetic and optical properties of these materials.

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Friend, R.H. (1984). Electronic Properties of Conjugated Polymers. In: Acrivos, J.V., Mott, N.F., Yoffe, A.D. (eds) Physics and Chemistry of Electrons and Ions in Condensed Matter. NATO ASI Series, vol 130. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6440-2_50

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