Biomimetic Conducting Polymers: Synthesis, Materials, Properties, Functions, and Devices

Electro-generations of conducting polymers are fast processes through a complex mechanism of parallel reactions giving mixed materials. The films are three-dimensional electrochemical reactors: reactive macromolecules, ions, and solvent. The film composition and its related properties reviewed here change by oxidation/reduction along several orders of magnitude under control. One reaction shifts different properties (multifunctionality). In one device several reaction driven tools, actuators and sensor, work simultaneously (full integration). The activation energy, the coefficient, and the reaction order shift with the initial state of packing conformations. Trapping charges and conformational energetic states constitute new multivalent chemo-conformational memories, close to brain memory.