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Electromechanical Polymer Gels Combining Rubber Elasticity with Electronic Conduction
Author(s) -
PépinDonat B.,
Viallat A.,
Blachot J.F.,
Lombard C.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.200501418
Subject(s) - elasticity (physics) , polymer , materials science , rubber elasticity , thermal conduction , natural rubber , coupling (piping) , polymer science , electric field , chemical physics , composite material , polymer chemistry , chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics
Well‐controlled electrically conducting rubbers are ideal systems for addressing longstanding questions about intrachain electronic transport mechanisms, intractable for classical conducting polymers except at a very local scale. These doped gels permit observation of macroscopic electromechanical effects, such as changes in strain (τ) upon application of electric fields (see plot), resulting from molecular‐scale coupling between transport and chain‐conformational properties.