ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING POLYMERS.

Abstract

Inorganic and organic polymer systems with metallic properties are reviewed and the physics and chemistry of the lightly conducting systems are described, ranging from the inorganic (SN)//x to organic materials such as (CH)//x, polypyrrole and polyphenylenes. As it would be very difficult in a single chapter to adequately review the already extensive literature on these materials, a coherent overview is presented of the current status of highly conductive polymers and the interested reader is referred to several review articles for a more extensive survey of the literature.