The study of conducting polymers for use as redox supercapacitors

Electronically conducting polymers have been prepared from bridged dithieny l derived monomers. These monomers have been designed in order to yield pol ymers that possess a low bandgap (c.a. 1 eV). Recently low bandgap polymers have been targeted for use as the active material in electrochemical capac itors, better known as supercapacitors. We report the characterisation of t hese polymers using cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectrosc opy and discharge cycles.