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REVIEW article
Front. Mater.
Sec. Energy Materials
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmats.2025.1375558
This article is part of the Research Topic 2022 Retrospective: Energy Materials View all 5 articles
Potential-step chronocoulometry for robust analysis of chargetransport and thermoelectric behaviors of conducting polymers
Provisionally accepted- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
The author has previously established an electrochemical technique, namely potential-step chronocoulometry (PSC), enabling the precise control of the doping state and accurate quantitation of the doping level (charge density, i.e., the number of injected charges per unit volume) in conducting polymers. This technique was used to analyze the correlation between the doping level and charge-transport properties of such polymers and evaluate the performance of organic thermoelectric materials, which have recently attracted considerable interest as new energy materials, in relation to their charge density. The present review summarizes representative studies using PSC to analyze the charge-transport and thermoelectric properties of conducting polymers in relation to charge density.
Keywords: conducting polymer, Potential-step chronocoulometry, Charge density, Doping level, charge transport, Thermoelectric property
Received: 24 Jan 2024; Accepted: 24 Feb 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Ichiro Imae, Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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