Clay/Conductive Polymer Nanocomposites

Chapter 6 Clay/Conductive Polymer Nanocomposites Ali Saad 1 , Khouloud Jlassi 2 , Mária Omastová 3 and Mohamed M. Chehimi 4 1 University of Carthage, La Marsa, Tunisia; 2 Qatar University, Doha, Qatar; 3 Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia; 4 Paris Est University, CNRS, Thiais, France 1. INTRODUCTION Inherently conductive polymers (ICPs) are specialty polymers that conduct electricity without any addition of metallic ﬁllers, in contrast to traditional conductive composites obtained by mixing insulating polymers with metals. The research on ICPs took off when the group of McDiarmid discovered the inherent conductivity of polyacetylene upon doping with halogens [1]. Global development has led to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to McDiarmid, Shirakawa, and Heeger in 2000 for the discovery of ICPs [2]. Since the seminal work of the Nobel Prize winners, extensive research has been conducted with other conjugated polymers such as polypyrrole (PPy), polyaniline (PANI), polythiophene (PT), and later poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) (Fig. 6.1) [3]. n FIGURE 6.1 Chemical structure of the main conjugated polymers in their neutral state. ClayePolymer Nanocomposites. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-46153-5.00006-9 Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 199

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