The charge storage mechanism of conducting polymers: a voltammetric study on defined soluble oligomers of the phenylene–vinylene type

Abstract

The reductive charging–discharging behaviour of several newly synthesized soluble oligo-p-phenylene-vinylenes was studied by cyclic voltammetry; the results show that both the number of redox states and the magnitude of their energetic interaction depend on the chain length of the corresponding oligomer.