| Preface to Polish Edition | |
| Preface to English Edition | |
| General Remarks | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Historical Survey of Research in Organic Conducting Materials | p. 3 |
| Basic Properties of Low-Dimensional Organic Materials | p. 4 |
| Analogies and Differences between the Properties of One- and Three-Dimensional Materials | p. 7 |
| Potentialities for the Application of Low-Dimensional Organic Conductors | p. 8 |
| Physical Principles of the Phenomena Occurring in One-Dimensional Systems | p. 10 |
| Properties of One-Dimensional Electron Gas | p. 10 |
| Basic Types of Interactions in One-Dimensional Systems | p. 16 |
| Charge Localization Problems | p. 23 |
| Charge Density Waves and Spin Density Waves | p. 27 |
| Solitons | p. 33 |
| Selected Problems of Phase Transition Theory in One-Dimensional Systems | p. 37 |
| Physical Bases of Superconductivity in Organic Systems | p. 44 |
| Structure and Properties of Conducting Organic Crystals | p. 56 |
| Ion-Radical Salts and Charge Transfer Complexes: Molecular Structure of Donors and Acceptors | p. 56 |
| Molecular Arrangement in Quasi-One-Dimensional Crystals | p. 70 |
| Crystal Structure of Selected Conducting Organic Crystals | p. 77 |
| Charge transfer complexes | p. 77 |
| Simple ion-radical tetracyano-p-quinodimethane salts | p. 77 |
| Complex ion-radical tetracyano-p-quinodimethane salts | p. 79 |
| Electric Properties | p. 85 |
| Mechanisms of Electric Transport; Nonlinear Transport | p. 96 |
| Magnetic Properties | p. 103 |
| Magnetic Ordering and Magnetization | p. 109 |
| Optical Properties | p. 116 |
| Electron-Phonon Interactions in One-Dimensional Systems | p. 124 |
| Phase Transitions | p. 130 |
| Influence of Pressure on Physical Properties of the System and Phase Transition Mechanisms | p. 136 |
| Role of Structural Disorder and Defects | p. 144 |
| Superconductivity in Organic Systems | p. 147 |
| Structure and Properties of Conducting Polymers | p. 158 |
| Introductory Comments | p. 158 |
| Structure of Pure and Doped Polyacetylene | p. 159 |
| Electrical Properties of Doped Polyacetylene | p. 164 |
| Optical Properties of Doped Polyacetylene | p. 170 |
| Magnetic Properties and Spin Dynamics in Doped Polyacetylene | p. 174 |
| Structure and Properties of Polypyrrole | p. 176 |
| Structure and Properties of Other Conducting Polymers | p. 181 |
| General comments on the structure of other polymers | p. 181 |
| Polydiacetylenes | p. 183 |
| Polyphenylene | p. 185 |
| Polyaniline | p. 186 |
| Polythiophene | p. 188 |
| The Structure and Electrical Properties of Heterogeneous Polymer Systems Containing a Microcrystalline Network of Charge Transfer Complexes | p. 189 |
| Methods of Obtaining Low-Dimensional Organic Conductors | |
| Introductory Comments | p. 192 |
| Methods of Obtaining Crystalline Ion-Radical Salts and Charge Transfer Complexes | p. 193 |
| Electrochemical Method of Producing High-Conducting Organic Crystals | p. 196 |
| Methods of Obtaining and Doping Polyacetylene | p. 198 |
| Other Methods of Obtaining Low-Dimensional High-Conducting Polymers | p. 203 |
| Structure, Properties and Applications of Heterogeneous Organic Molecules and Molecular Structures | p. 206 |
| Introductory Comments | p. 206 |
| p-n Junction in Organic Systems | p. 208 |
| Metal-Organic Semiconductor Systems | p. 216 |
| Photovoltaic Effect in Organic Systems | p. 224 |
| Molecular Electrochemical Equipment | p. 239 |
| Other Applications of Organic Conductors | p. 255 |
| Bistable switches and logic elements | p. 255 |
| Picture monitors and optical recorders | p. 261 |
| Electronic and optical elements and other applications | p. 267 |
| Perspectives on Development and Modernisation of Molecular Materials | p. 274 |
| Introductory Comments | p. 274 |
| Some Possible Materials of Molecular Electronics | p. 275 |
| Future Solutions to Selected Electronic Elements | p. 282 |
| Problems to be Solved. Summary | p. 289 |
| References | p. 292 |
| Index | p. 302 |
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