Conjugated Polymers and Related Materials (1991, NS 81) W R Salanek, I Lundström, B Rånby June 13-18, Luleå Proceedings: W R Salanek, I Lundström, B Rånby: Conjugated polymers and Related Materials. The Interconnection of Chemical and Electronic Structure (1993), Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK (no longer in print)

 

Table of Contents
List of participants	xi
List of contributors	xiii
Part I: Introduction
Introductory remarks W.R. Salaneck	3
Importance of an interdisciplinary approach to the progress in polymer chemistry K. Fukui	7
Background-polymer science before 1977 B. Rånby	15
Conjugated polymers: the interconnection of chemical and electronic structure A. J. Heeger	27
Part 2: Chemical synthesis and structure
Synthesis and characterization of polyacetylene H. Shirakawa, Y.-X. Zhang, and K. Akagi	65
The polyanilines: a novel class of conducting polymers A. G. MacDiarmid	73
Synthesis of electrically conducting polymers - correlations, consequences, and concepts H. Naarmann	99
Functionalization of conducting polymers toward a molecular device T. Shimidzu and T. Iyoda	109
Novel functional gel characteristics of conducting polymer K. Yoshino	121
Synthesis and optical properties of chiralpoly(2,5-bis (3,7-dimethyl-6-octenoxy)- 1,4-phenylenevinylene) E. Harlev and F. Wudl	139
Highly electrically conducting polypyrrole and its composites prepared by chemical polymerization methods Y.E. Whang and S. Miyata	149
On the macromolecular chain structure of conducting polypyrrole R. Qian	161
The chemistry and photochemistry of the precursor route to polyacetylene, implications for materials science and physics An overview P. I. Clemenson, H. Cramail, P. W. Dyer, S. Feast, W. J. Feast, V. C. Gibson, E. Khosravi, D. Parker, and J. N. Winter	171
Part 3: Electronic structure and excitations
The polyanilines: illustration of the interconnection between chemical structure, geometric structure, and electronic structure in conjugated polymers J.-L. Brédas	187
The peierls ground state, solitons and polarons in ring-containing polymers A. J. Epstein	223
Conjugation lengths and non-linear optical properties of organic polymers R. J. Silbey	229
Molecular and electronic structures of metallic polyacetylene J. Tanaka and C. Tanaka	239
The metallic state of heavily doped conducting polymers S.A. Kivelson and M.I. Salkola	247
Part 4: Applications
Possible mechanism for the gas-selective properties of emeraldine membranes H. Reiss	263
Conjugated oligomers as model compounds for the charge transport process: towards molecular electronics F. Garnier	273
Semiconductor devices fabricated with conjugated polymers: novel optoelectronic properties R. H. Friend	285
Part 5: Spectroscopies
Electronic structure and chemical structure of conjugated polymers: a contribution from Raman and Resonance Raman excitation H. Kuzmany	327
Probing the electronic structure of polyconjugated molecules by vibrational spectroscopy G. Zerbi	343
Non-equilibrium processes in conducting polymers: slow relaxation effect M. Nechtschein, C. Odin, and B. Villeret	365
Scanning tunnelling microscopy study of conducting polymers M. Schott, E. Lacaze, and J. Garbarz	377
Optical studies of photoexcitations in trans-polyacetylene Z. V. Vardeny	407
Band gap states of ß-carotene E. Ehrenfreund and F. Coter	419
Part 6: Related concepts and materials
Molecular superconductors and related conductors K. Bechgaard	431
Molecular concepts of normal and superconducting states in conjugated polymers and related materials T. Yamabe	443
Magnetic phase of carbon A.A. Ovchinnikov	453
Room temperature co-operative behaviour in a molecular-based material J. S. Miller, J. M. Manriquez, G. T. Yee, and A. J. Epstein	461
Molecular/organic/polymeric based magnets: the interconnection of chemical and magnetic structure A. J. Epstein and J. S. Miller	475
Index	491