Disruption of the electrical conductivity of highly conductive poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) by hypochlorite

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 117, Issue 37, 2013, Pages 10929-10935

  Oostra, A Jolt ^a   Van Den Bos, Karel H W ^a   Blom, Paul W M ^a,b   Michels, Jasper J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION LIMITED; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FUNCTION OF TIME; HYPOCHLORITE TREATMENT; INSULATING LAYERS; LAYER THICKNESS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POLY-3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE;

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PHYSICS;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 84884516234     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4050836     Document Type: Article

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