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Conducting polymers with fibrillar morphology synthesized in a biphasic ionic liquid/water system
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posted on 2007-01-01, 00:00 authored by Jenny PringleJenny Pringle, O Ngamna, C Lynam, G Wallace, Maria ForsythMaria Forsyth, D MacFarlaneThe synthesis of poly(pyrrole), poly(terthiophene), and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) with unusual fibrillar morphologies has been achieved by chemical polymerization in a biphasic ionic liquid/water system. Use of aqueous gold chloride as the oxidant, with the monomers dissolved in a hydrophobic ionic liquid, allows the polymerization to occur at the ionic liquid/water interface. The resultant conducting polymer fibrils are, on average, 50−100 nm wide and can be thousands of nanometers long. The polymers produced in this ionic liquid system are compared to those synthesized in a biphasic chloroform/water system.
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MacromoleculesVolume
40Issue
8Pagination
2702 - 2711Publisher
American Chemical SocietyLocation
Washington, D.C.Publisher DOI
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0024-9297eISSN
1520-5835Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2007, American Chemical SocietyUsage metrics
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