A new cobalt bis(semiquinone) valence tautomer is reported featuring a terthienyl substituent, which undergoes electropolymerization to produce a valence tautomeric conducting metallopolymer.

The mass transport behavior during the redox reaction of poly(N-phenylpyrrole) (PPhPy) films in propylene carbonate (PC) and acetonitrile (AN) solutions has been studied using the cyclic electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM) technique and the electrochemical impedance technique. It was found that the type of dopant anion and solvent used in the electropolymerization affects the amo...

Integrating polymers with inorganic nanostructures is difficult due to wetting and surface energy considerations. In this paper, we developed an electropolymerization method to grow conformal polymers on high aspect ratio nanostructures. Our method is shown to improve the polymer filling rate inside the nanostructures and can be used in the development of efficient hybrid solar cells. As an exa...

Whether for fundamental biological research or for diagnostic and drug discovery applications, protein micro- and nanoarrays are attractive technologies because of their low sample consumption, high-throughput, and multiplexing capabilities. However, the arraying platforms developed so far are still not able to handle membrane proteins, and specific methods to selectively immobilize these hydro...

Electron-conductive polymers were first reported in 1971 by Shirakawa and co-workers [1]. They synthesized conducting polyacetylene and found that it had a considerably high conductivity relative to other organic compounds, 10 S cm 1 [1–3]. Since 1971, various conducting polymers and their synthesis mechanisms have been studied actively by many researchers [4]. The conductivities of these polym...

The preparation of a new conjugated polymer with a low band gap of approximately 0.5 eV has been accomplished via the electropolymerization of acenaphto[1,2-b]thieno[3,4-e]pyrazine.

New chiral magnetite nanoparticles with a polymerizable group produced polymer composite films on an electrode surface and the hybrid nanotubes of magnetite nanoparticles and polythiophene from their template-based electropolymerization.

Perylenetetracarboxylic diimide derivatives bearing 2- or 4-peripheral pyrrole pendants could be efficiently crosslinked to form an insoluble film either by electropolymerization or visible light induced oxidative photopolymerization of the pyrrole units.