title: Insulated conducting polymers: manipulating charge transport using supramolecular complexes.
abstract: Rotaxane structures which provide functional insulation to conducting polymers can provide over a 4000-fold reduction in conductivity over non-rotaxane structures and with electronically active copper ions in the rotaxane units the conductivity increases by more than 80 times relative to the metal-free analog.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Phoebe H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Kwan
authors.forename: Timothy M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Swager