Mathematical Modelling of Transport through Conducting Polymer Films. 1. The Poly(paraphenylene) System

Modeling studies concerning charge transport through organically conductive polymer systems have focussed principally on polyacetylene PA and poly pyrrole PP with charge transport presumed to occur via polarons, bipolarons, or charged solitons, depending on the system. Apart from theoretical studies on organic conducting polymers, a significant amount of theoretical work has been done in efforts to explain transport phenomena in electrodes modified with inorganic conducting systems such as polyvinylferrocene PVC and other transition metal-containing polymers. To date these theoretical models have been for the most part quantum mechanical in nature, with transport presumed to occur via an electron hopping mechanism.