Effect of electrochemical control function and dopant anion on polyaniline film deposition: are structural variations present and resilient?

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We propose to determine the structures (polymer and solvent populations and spatial distributions) of polyaniline films deposited by different protocols. These involve different electrochemical control functions (potentiostatic; potentiodynamic; galvanostatic) and different dopant anions. The aims are to determine the extent of structural variation and, more significantly, its persistence when the film is subject to extended redox cycling. The latter is a test of whether it is polymerization conditions or immediate environment that determine film structure. The outcomes of these experiments will provide a rationale for widely acknowledged differences in the performance of nominally "identical" films prepared by different workers; this is a substantive barrier to practical applications.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24090621
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24090621
Provenance
Creator Professor Robert Hillman; Professor Karl Ryder; Dr Rachel Sapstead; Ms Charlotte Beebee; Dr Virginia Ferreira; Dr Erik Watkins; Dr Emma Smith
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-05-26T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-05-30T11:42:30Z