Issue 25, 2013
From the journal:

Journal of Materials Chemistry C

A merocyanine-based conductive polymer†

Klaudia Wagner,a   Michele Zanoni,b   Anastasia B. S. Elliott,c   Pawel Wagner,a   Robert Byrne,b   Larisa E. Florea,b   Dermot Diamond,b   Keith C. Gordon,c   Gordon G. Wallacea  and  David L. Officer*a  

* Corresponding authors

a ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science and Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, AIIM Facility, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
E-mail: davido@uow.edu.ac

b CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, National Centre for Sensor Research, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

c MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand

Abstract

We report the first example of a conducting polymer with a merocyanine incorporated into the polymer backbone by electropolymerisation of a spiropyran moiety covalently linked between two alkoxythiophene units. Utilising the known metal coordination capabilities of merocyanines, introduction of cobalt ions into the electropolymerisation led to an enhancement of the conductivity, morphology and optical properties of the polymer films.

Graphical abstract: A merocyanine-based conductive polymer

About
Cited by
Related
Download options Please wait...

Supplementary files

Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3TC30479E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
14 Mar 2013
Accepted
17 May 2013
First published
20 May 2013

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013,1, 3913-3916

Permissions

Request permissions

A merocyanine-based conductive polymer

K. Wagner, M. Zanoni, A. B. S. Elliott, P. Wagner, R. Byrne, L. E. Florea, D. Diamond, K. C. Gordon, G. G. Wallace and D. L. Officer, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013, 1, 3913 DOI: 10.1039/C3TC30479E

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements