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Publication
Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
Paper
'Organic metals': polypyrrole, a stable synthetic 'metallic' polymer
Abstract
Highly stable, flexible films of polypyrrole with p-type conductivities of 100 Ω-1 cm-1 have been prepared by electrolytic oxidation of the appropriate pyrrole monomers; similarly prepared films of mixtures of pyrrole and N-methylpyrrole have conductivities between 5 × 10-3 and 100 Ω-1 cm-1 depending upon the composition.