Functionalized Conducting Polymers: Toward Molecular Devices

Abstract

There are many functional molecules. For their exploitation, conducting polymers are considered to be suitable matrices, because their conductive properties may be used to prove the electronic structure and state, which relate directly to the function of these molecules. To construct a molecular device, the fabrication and the materialization of those functional molecules at the molecular level is one of the most important problems. The present study demonstrates three approaches toward molecular device construction:

• (1) materialization of functional molecules by their incorporation in conducting polymers

• (2) molecular level fabrication of conducting polymers

• (3) integration of functional molecules to be incorporated, as shown in the following scheme (Fig. 1).