UC Merced

Recent advances in the field of organic electronic devices such as supercapacitors, chemical sensors, and field-effect transistors, have brought tremendous attention to conjugated materials. The benefits of these conjugated materials are their significantly lower fabrication cost, low-temperature processing, solution processability, mechanical flexibility, and tunable optoelectronic properties compared to their inorganic counterparts. Among the family of conducting polymers, polyaniline is of particular interest as a result of its ambient stability, distinctive oxidation-reduction chemistry, and the straightforward acid-base doping-dedoping process. However, its properties such as polydispersity, poor processability, complex chain conformation, and poor solubility proved to be challenging for fundamental studies.