Polyconjugated Materials

Abbreviated. 1. Structure, Electrical Properties and Transport Properties.The design of polymeric organic metals: structure-property relationships (V. Enkelmann et al.). Heterogeneous electrical conductivity in metallic polyacetylene films (F. Korner et al.). Electrochemical doping of poly(rho-phenylene sulfide) in concentrated sulfuric acid (C. Arbizzani et al.). Environmental and electrochemical stability of poly(dithienothiophene) (M. Siekierski, J. Plocharski). Electrochemical properties of thermally-structurized polymers (L. Sawtschenko et al.). 2. Optical Properties, Electronic Properties and Photoconductivity. Nonlinear optical processes in conjugated polymers: configuration interaction description of linear polyenes and VEH/SOS evaluation of polyarylene vinylenes (Z. Shuai et al.). Molecular orbitals and optical nonlinearities for symmetrically substituted benzylidene anilines (Y. Mori et al.). Extended states in disordered doped polyacetylene chains (F.C. Lavarda et al.). Characterization of segmented and highly oriented polyacetylene by electron spin resonance (A. Bartl et al.). An investigation into the electronic structure of poly(isothianaphthene) (I. Hoogmartens et al.). Picosecond photoconductivity in (CH)x (J. Reichenbach et al.). In situ optical spectroscopy of electrochemical doping of polypyrole (S. Skaarup et al.). 3. Synthesis and Electropolymerization. Fusion of heterocyclic polymerogenic units onto a central ring: A fruitful approach to the investigation and specific tailoring of the dependence of electrical properties on monomer structure in conductive polyheterocycles (A. Berlin et al.). Dependence of polypyrrole production on potential (T.F. Otero, C. Santamaria). Electropolymerization of benzene in a two-phase strong proton acid-benzene system (L.M. Goldenberg et al.). 4. Devices. Conjugated polymer semiconductor devices: characterisation of charged and neutral excitations (R.H. Friend). Polypyrrole microtubules and their use in the construction of a third generation biosensor (C.G.J. Koopal et al.). Charge separation in mixed-halide MX crystals: novel device applications (A. Saxena et al.). Author index. Subject index.