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Photopolymerized silver-containing conducting polymer films. Part I. An electronic conductivity and cyclic voltammetric investigation

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A photopolymerization process that simultaneously deposits electronically conducting polymer films and incorporates nanophase silver grains within the films, the silver grains having been formed in situ on irradiating cast, photopolymerizable formulations containing silver salts, was developed. Polymer films produced from formulations containing large organic anions were very flexible and strongly adherent to substrates. Polypyrrole films containing silver grains were characterized electronically on measuring their electronic conductivities and electrochemically on recording their cyclic voltammetric profiles. Conductivities were affected by the chemical identity and concentration of components added to photopolymerizable formulations. The best photopolymerized films had a conductivity of the order of 1 S cm−1. Electronically conducting films derived from formulations consisting of a monomer, an electron acceptor/“dopant,” and a photoinitiator were electrochemically active. They possessed long-term stability under extended electrode potential cycling conditions, acceptable charge storage capacity, and the ability to oxidize or reduce redox couples in solution.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge grant ISI 9060319 awarded by the National Science Foundation and contract NAS3-26506 awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for providing funding in support of the work described in this paper.

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    Maria Gamboa-Aldeco & Oliver J. Murphy

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Paper submitted for inclusion in the special issue of the Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry honouring the 85th birthday of Professor John O’M. Bockris.

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Hodko, D., Gamboa-Aldeco, M. & Murphy, O.J. Photopolymerized silver-containing conducting polymer films. Part I. An electronic conductivity and cyclic voltammetric investigation. J Solid State Electrochem 13, 1063–1075 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-008-0714-0

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