ELECTROCHEMICAL COPOLYMERIZATION OF BENZO[B]THIOPHENE

Many attempts have been made to produce new conducting polymers such as polypyrrole, polythiophene and polyaniline by electrochemical polymerization. This paper reports on the electrochemical copolymerization of benzo left bracket b right bracket thiophene with pyrrole and the conditions for producing flexible and transparent conductive films. Highly conducting polymer films that are stable to ambient conditions and have good mechanical properties can be obtained by the electrochemical copolymerization of benzo left bracket b right bracket thiophene with pyrrole if a suitable supporting electrolyte, solvent, current density and copolymer composition are selected.