Course Description
Historical background, what are electrically conducting polymers, discovery of electrically conducting polymers, other conducting polymers. Classification of electrochemically active polymers, redox polymers, intrinsically conducting polymers, conducting copolymers, composite materials , Chemical and electrochemical synthesis of conducting polymers, chemical and electrochemical doping, electrochemical polymerization, common structural features of conducting polymers , Nature of charge carriers in conducting polymers, solitons, polarons and bipolarons, polymers with degenerated ground states, mechanism of conduction, band gap structure, bad gap energy, factors affecting the conductivity of conducting polymers, donor-acceptor polymerization , Methods of investigation, electrochemical methods: cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry and chronocoulometry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance, ellipsometry, spectroelectrochemistry, scanning probe techniques, conductivity measurements , Applications of conducting polymers, antistatic coatings, microwave absorption, microelectronics, electroluminescent and electrochromic devices, membranes and ion-exchanger, corrosion protection, sensors, materials for energy technologies, artificial muscles, electrocatalysis.
Course ID: Chem 620
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 3 | - | - |
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