Conjugated Polymers and Related Materials: The Interconnection of Chemical and Electronic Structure

Conjugated polymers are a relatively new class of organic polymeric materials that have a wide variety of new and interesting properties. They exhibit non-linear optical properties with very high figures of merit, are "dopable" to extremely high levels of conductivity, and have many of the processing properties normally associated with more common polymer materials. In 1991, the Nobel Foundation brought together some of the world's most prominent chemists, physicists and materials scientists to discuss recent advances in conjugated polymers research. This book contains the fruit of that meeting. Containing 32 chapters which cover the field in detail--from chemical synthesis and electronic structure to applications and spectroscopies--the book represents the best research occurring today in the study of conjugated polymers. It will be of great interest to students and researchers in polymer sciences.Lundström, I. is the author of 'Conjugated Polymers and Related Materials: The Interconnection of Chemical and Electronic Structure', published 1993 under ISBN 9780198557296 and ISBN 0198557299.