Alexey VolkovOkay, so, we did a thing. Writing a post a few weeks later as the manuscript is up in its properly styled electronic form. Here is a new #article on #electrochemical #copolymerization of #hydroquinone and #PEDOT, which is essentially its title. Apart from checking whether it's actually a #copolymer (rather than a composite), we adjusted synthesis parameters, studied charge transfer a bit, and threw in a little something regarding probable use as an #energy storing #ElectrodeMaterial.
There are also bits and pieces of other methods relevant to our ongoing projects, but the most curious thing for me personally (and the one that led me to near-exhaustion a few times when I thought that a fluke is an “aha!” moment) is the possibility of mixing two relatively simple compounds, bashing them with pulsed potential repeatedly and getting an outcome of a nice capacitive/conducting PEDOT response, on top of which we can have however much we want (well, up to about two-thirds) redox response of hydroquinone.
Anyway, we’ve been cooking for 2 years, because each time something happened, it did the result more interesting, until we were finally—well, not satisfied exactly—but sure that it would be compelling as a published article.
The link is here:
https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TA07307J
There are also bits and pieces of other methods relevant to our ongoing projects, but the most curious thing for me personally (and the one that led me to near-exhaustion a few times when I thought that a fluke is an “aha!” moment) is the possibility of mixing two relatively simple compounds, bashing them with pulsed potential repeatedly and getting an outcome of a nice capacitive/conducting PEDOT response, on top of which we can have however much we want (well, up to about two-thirds) redox response of hydroquinone.
Anyway, we’ve been cooking for 2 years, because each time something happened, it did the result more interesting, until we were finally—well, not satisfied exactly—but sure that it would be compelling as a published article.
The link is here:
https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TA07307J