TY - JOUR
T1 - THEORETICAL STUDY OF THE ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF BIPHENYLENE POLYMERS
T2 - PREDICTION OF NEW HIGHLY CONDUCTING POLYMER COMPLEXES.
AU - Bredas, J. L.
AU - Baughman, R. H.
PY - 1983
Y1 - 1983
N2 - Valence effective Hamiltonian calculations were performed on three conjugated polymers based on biphenylene. The results indicate that a linear ladder-type biphenylene polymer (compound B) could possess very promising properties: a very low ionization potential (ca. 3. 4 ev), a very small (indirect) bandgap (ca. 0. 12 ev), consequently a large electron affinity of the order of 3. 3 ev, and a highest occupied band almost as wide as that in polyacetylene. As a result, this system should form highly conducting complexes with electron donors as well as with electron acceptors (including organic acceptors such as tetracyanoethylene), and the acceptor complexes could prove quite stable in air.
AB - Valence effective Hamiltonian calculations were performed on three conjugated polymers based on biphenylene. The results indicate that a linear ladder-type biphenylene polymer (compound B) could possess very promising properties: a very low ionization potential (ca. 3. 4 ev), a very small (indirect) bandgap (ca. 0. 12 ev), consequently a large electron affinity of the order of 3. 3 ev, and a highest occupied band almost as wide as that in polyacetylene. As a result, this system should form highly conducting complexes with electron donors as well as with electron acceptors (including organic acceptors such as tetracyanoethylene), and the acceptor complexes could prove quite stable in air.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0342284480
VL - 21
SP - 475
EP - 479
JO - Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics
JF - Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics
SN - 0887-6266
IS - 6
ER -