Conductive Polymer Blends

Two approaches were taken to preparing processible blends of conducting matrix polymers suspension copolymerization of pyrrole and a thermoplastic monomer, and synthesis of block copolymers consisting of conducting polymer and thermoplastic polymer segments. A vast amount of porosity was observed on the fracture surfaces of compression-molded samples of suspension copolymerization material, even with extended molding times, indicating that the relatively low conductivity of the samples polythiopine. Thiophene and bithiophene-terminated thermoplastic oligomers were also prepared, but polythiphene segments could not be introduced by electrochemical methods. Synthesis of pyrrole-terminated oligomers using metal salts of pyrrole is a useful approach for preparing pyrrole-terminated polymethacrylate oligomers.