Insulated conducting polymers: manipulating charge transport using supramolecular complexes.
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.
Kwan
Phoebe H
PH
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Swager
Timothy M
TM