Conducting Redox Polymer
Conducting redox polymers (CRPs) or intrinsically conducting redox polymers are organic Polymer, polymers that combine the properties of Conductive polymer, conducting polymers and redox active polymers. They consist of a conducting polymer backbone with redox active pendant groups. The conducting backbone is usually polythiophene or polypyrrole based. As pendant groups quinones, radicals (eg. TEMPO), and metal complexes (eg. ferrocene) have been used. The conducting polymer backbone makes the addition of conductive additives obsolete which is a major advantage for practical applications like Polymer-based battery, energy storage compared to conventional redox active polymers. Synthesis The general strategy for the synthesis of conducting redox polymers is to attach a redox active group to a monomer (or a Trimer (chemistry), trimer) of the respective conducting polymer. These monomers, which are often 3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene, EDOT derivatives, are subsequently Polymerizatio ...
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Polymer
A polymer () is a chemical substance, substance or material that consists of very large molecules, or macromolecules, that are constituted by many repeat unit, repeating subunits derived from one or more species of monomers. Due to their broad spectrum of properties, both synthetic and natural polymers play essential and ubiquitous roles in everyday life. Polymers range from familiar synthetic plastics such as polystyrene to natural biopolymers such as DNA and proteins that are fundamental to biological structure and function. Polymers, both natural and synthetic, are created via polymerization of many small molecules, known as monomers. Their consequently large molecular mass, relative to small molecule compound (chemistry), compounds, produces unique physical property, physical properties including toughness, high rubber elasticity, elasticity, viscoelasticity, and a tendency to form Amorphous solid, amorphous and crystallization of polymers, semicrystalline structures rath ...
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