ELECTROCHEMICAL PREPARATION AND ELECTROCHROMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF DITHIENOPYRROLE-DITHIENOTHIOPHENE, DITHIENOPYRROLE-THIONAPHTHENEINDOLE AND DITHIENOTHIOPHENE-THIONAPHTHENEINDOLE COPOLYMERS

Authors
BEGGIATO G CASALBOREMICELI G GERI A BERLIN A PAGANI G
Citation
G. Beggiato et al., ELECTROCHEMICAL PREPARATION AND ELECTROCHROMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF DITHIENOPYRROLE-DITHIENOTHIOPHENE, DITHIENOPYRROLE-THIONAPHTHENEINDOLE AND DITHIENOTHIOPHENE-THIONAPHTHENEINDOLE COPOLYMERS, Synthetic metals, 82(1), 1996, pp. 11-15
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Condensed Matter","Material Science","Polymer Sciences
Journal title
Synthetic metals → ACNP
ISSN journal
03796779
Volume
82
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
11 - 15
Database
ISI
SICI code
0379-6779(1996)82:1<11:EPAECO>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
Poly(dithienopyrrole-dithienothiophene) copolymers can be obtained as good conducting electrode films by electrolytic oxidation of acetonitr ile solutions of monomer mixtures (electrolyte: tetrabutylammonium per chlorate). They show good electrochromic characteristics. Films of pol y(dithienopyrrole-thionaphtheneindole) and poly(dithienothiophene-thio naphtheneindole) copolymers can be obtained in the same way as the pre vious ones. They are adherent to the electrodes but are insulating and non-electrochromic; the reason for this behaviour is proposed to be t he break of conjugation in the polymeric chain due to the thionaphthen eindole moiety.