You are invited to attend Haoyu Fu's MASc oral exam,where he will discuss his research into Solution-Processable Polypyrrole-Based Conducting Polymers.
Abstract: Polypyrrole (PPy) is a well know conductive polymer with high conductivity. However, PPy is insoluble in most solvents, which lowers its processability and limits its application. Two major strategies to increase the PPy solubility, including doping with large contour ions and introducing an alkyl sidechain to the PPy backbone, were found to significantly decrease the conductivity of PPy by several orders of magnitude. In this work, two polymers, poly(2-ethylhexyl 1H-pyrrole-1-carboxylate) (PEPC) and Poly[1-((2-ethylhexyl)oxy)-1H-pyrrole] (PEOP) were explored and studied to address the PPy solubility issue.