This book contains the majority of the papers presented at the NATO Ad vanced Research Workshop (ARW) held in Burlington, Vermont, USA on October 12-15, 1992. This ARW was the first of its kind to address the subject of intrinsically conducting polymers with an emphasis on processing and technological applications. The NATO ARW format was followed in that the subjects addressed here were limited in number but discussed in detail with the attendance being limited to a small number of selected scientists. The ARW brought together lecturers who are leaders in their respective fields from a wide range of NATO and non-NATO countries (a total of 11 countries) with the support of the NATO Scientific Affairs Division and some support from Champlain Cable Corporation. The total number of par ticipants was 33 and the number of presentations was 24. The speakers were chosen based on the topics selected for this workshop and repre sented industry, universities and government laboratories. The field of conducting polymers has grown rapidly during the past few years with important developments in materials processing and fabrica tion that brought about active research programs focusing on the use of these polymers as "smart" materials in technological applications and devices in academic and industrial research laboratories.

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This book contains the majority of the papers presented at the NATO Ad vanced Research Workshop (ARW) held in Burlington, Vermont, USA on October 12-15, 1992. This ARW was the first of its kind to address the subject of intrinsically conducting polymers with an emphasis on processing and technological applications. The NATO ARW format was followed in that the subjects addressed here were limited in number but discussed in detail with the attendance being limited to a small number of selected scientists. The ARW brought together lecturers who are leaders in their respective fields from a wide range of NATO and non-NATO countries (a total of 11 countries) with the support of the NATO Scientific Affairs Division and some support from Champlain Cable Corporation. The total number of par ticipants was 33 and the number of presentations was 24. The speakers were chosen based on the topics selected for this workshop and repre sented industry, universities and government laboratories. The field of conducting polymers has grown rapidly during the past few years with important developments in materials processing and fabrica tion that brought about active research programs focusing on the use of these polymers as "smart" materials in technological applications and devices in academic and industrial research laboratories.

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Synthesis, properties and applications of perconjugated systems.- Functionalizations of conducting polymers by mesoscopically structural control and by molecular combination of reactive moiety.- Characterization and application of polypyrrole-coated textiles.- Potential applications of conducting polymer colloids.- Processing of polyanilines.- Inclusion of conducting polymers in inorganic hosts: towards conducting nanostructures.- The separation of gases using conducting polymer films.- Intrinsically conducting polymers: from fundamental to applied research.- Conjugated polymer light-emitting diodes.- Molecular engineering of organic semiconductors.- Blue electroluminescence with polyconjugated materials.- Organic multilayer-dye electroluminescent diodes: is there any difference with polymer LED?.- The chemical and electronic structure of metal/conjugated polymer interfaces: a joint theoretical and experimental study.- Application of conducting polyanilines in computer manufacturing.- Conducting polymers for molecular electronics.- Polyanilines: recent advances in processing and applications to welding of plastics.- Electrochemomechanical and electrochemopositioning devices: artificial muscles.- A highly thermostable aluminum solid electrolytic capacitor with an electroconducting polymer electrolyte.- Polymer based xerographic photoreceptors.