Composite materials are made by impregnating a non-conductive material with a conducting monomer to form a monomer-impregnated non-conductive material, and polymerizing the monomer-impregnated non-conductive material to form the composite material. The composite materials are used in medical devices and implants.

The present disclosure is directed to methods of making a polymer, including exposing a reaction mixture including a strained cyclic unsaturated monomer and an organic initiator to a stimulus to provide an activated organic initiator, whereby the activated organic initiator is effective to polymerize the strained cyclic unsaturated monomer via a 4-membered carbocyclic intermediate to provide a polymer having constitutional units derived from the strained cyclic unsaturated monomer.

Disclosed are electrically conductive polymer compositions, and their use in organic electronic devices. The electrically conductive polymer compositions include an intrinsically electrically conductive polymer having Formula II:

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In Formula II: Q is the same or different at each occurrence and is S, P, Se, Te, O, PO, or NR.sup.o; R.sup.o is the same or different at each occurrence and is H, D, alkyl, deuterated alkyl, aryl, or deuterated aryl; R, R, and R are the same or different at each occurrence and are H, D, alkyl, alkoxy, ether, polyether, fluoroalkyl, aryl, aryloxy, heteroaryl, silyl, siloxane, siloxy, germyl, deuterated alkyl, deuterated partially-fluorinated alkyl, deuterated alkoxy, deuterated ether, deuterated polyether, deuterated aryl, deuterated heteroaryl, deuterated silyl, deuterated siloxane, deuterated siloxy, and deuterated germyl; wherein two R groups can together represent a single bond which forms a fused ring; with the proviso that any non-H/D group may be terminated by a functional group selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl, alcohol, alkoxy, ether, amine, amide, ester, carboxylic acid, sulfonic acid, phosphate, or deuterated analogs thereof; m is an integer from 1-5; n is an integer from 1-5; and o is an integer from 2-2000. The electrically conducting polymer is doped with a non-fluorinated acid polymer.

A conducting polymer which may have one redox couple and/or enhanced redox capacity. The polymer is a copolymer prepared by electropolymerizing a mixture of monomers.

A conducting polymer which may have one redox couple and/or enhanced redox capacity. The polymer is a copolymer prepared by electropolymerizing a mixture of monomers.

Selective electropolymerization of conducting polymers using a hydrogel stamp is disclosed. The ability of this simple method to generate patterned films of conducting polymers with multiple surface chemistries in a single-step process and to incorporate biomolecules in these films is further described.

Embodiments of the presently disclosed technology provide a synergistic combination of a conjugated open-shell donor-acceptor polymer with a carbon-based compound (e.g., reduced graphene oxide) to produce a composite electrode material which demonstrates state-of-the-art capacitance and potential window, with excellent kinetics and cycle life. The conjugated open-shell donor-acceptor polymer may comprise a plurality of alternating electron-rich monomers (i.e., donors) and electron-deficient monomers (i.e., acceptors) bonded together via a conjugated backbone. The conjugated backbone may comprise a connection of ?-orbitals of the plurality of monomers in alternating single and double bonds that facilitates unpaired electron delocalizationthereby stabilizing charge for the polymer. The carbon-based compound of the composite electrode material may provide porous, conductive scaffolds for the composite electrode material, resulting in electrodes scalable to microns-thick films with fast kinetics.

Composite materials are made by impregnating a non-conductive material with a conducting monomer to form a monomer-impregnated non-conductive material, and polymerizing the monomer-impregnated non-conductive material to form the composite material. The composite materials are used in medical devices and implants.

In one or more embodiments, the present invention provides a method of forming compact, flexible, stable and biocompatible conducting polymer coating for bioelectronics devices. In one or more embodiments, the present invention relates to a novel method of synthesizing a sulfobetaine-functionalized conjugated polymer platform using 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) as the conducting backbone (SBEDOT). This SBEDOT monomer is highly water-soluble and can be directly polymerized to form a densely packed film/coating on conductive or semi-conductive surfaces through electro-polymerization in a 100% aqueous solution without the need for organic solvents or surfactants. These polySBEDOT (PSBEDOT) coated surfaces have been shown to have electro-switchable antimicrobial/antifouling properties and excellent electrically conducting properties, which minimize infection, increase biocompatibility, and improve the performance of bioelectronics.

A solid electrolytic capacitor is obtained by a method which includes dissolving a polymerizable material for being converted into a conductive polymer in a water-soluble organic solvent to obtain a solution, adding the solution to water while homogenizing the solution to obtain a sol, immersing an anode body having a dielectric layer in the surface of the anode body in the sol, and applying voltage using the anode body as a positive electrode and a counter electrode as a negative electrode placed in the sol to electropolymerize the polymerizable material. An electropolymerizable liquid for producing a conductive polymer, the liquid composed of a sol comprising water, a water-soluble organic solvent, and a polymerizable material for being converted into the conductive polymer.