Springer Solid-State Sciences

I Transport, Structure.- Electronic Transport in Conducting Polymers.- The Effects of Intrachain Defects on the Electrical Anisotropy of Conducting Polymers.- Influence of the Catalyst on the Structure and Conductivity of Highly Conducting Polyacetylene.- Chemical n Doping of Polyacetylene with Alkaline and Tetraalkyl Ammonium Cations.- Super-Molecular Structure of Polyacetylenes and Electrical Conductivity.- Highly Conducting Polyanilines and Polyacetylene/Polyaniline Composites.- Simulation of the Cooperative Proton Motion in a Model Hydrogen-Bonded Chain.- Mass Transport in Conducting Polymers: An Experimental and Computer Simulation Study.- On the Structure of Lithium-Doped trans-Polyacetylene.- II Theory.- 3-D Structures and Intrinsic Defects in trans-Polyacetylene.- Polarons and Bipolarons in Conducting Polymers: The Role of Disorder and Coulomb Interaction.- Superconductivity in Models of Conducting Polymers.- Investigation of the Electronic Structure of Polymeric Vinylene Derivatives of Pyrene.- Quinoid-Aromatic Transition in Polythiophene-like Systems.- The Effect of Helical Conformation on the Electronic Structures of ?- and ?-Conjugated Polymers.- III Optical Excitation.- Phototransport in trans-Polyacetylene - A Short Review.- Photomodulation and Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of Poly(3-methylthiophene).- Photoexcited Triplet States in Poly(p-phenylene vinylene) and Model Oligomers.- Transient Photoconductivity in PPV - Influence of the Conjugation Length on Transport and Recombination.- Optical Properties of Polyparaphenylene Prepared by Precursor Polymers.- IV IR and Raman Spectroscopy.- Interpretation of Vibrational Spectra of Conducting Polymers by Means of an Effective Coordinate.- "Effective Coordinate" and the Interpretation of IR and Raman Spectra of Polypyrrole, Pristine and Doped.- Dynamics of Heterocyclic Polymers.- Raman Spectra of Polyphenylene-Vinylene and Similar Heterocyclic Compounds.- Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Accumulation Layers in DurhamRoute Polyacetylene.- Laser-Impact Induced Isomerisation of a Film-Contained cis-Polyacetylene as Studied by Multichannel Raman Spectroscopy.- Specific Problems Concerning In Situ External Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy of Conducting Polymers.- Evidence of Polaron Defects in Halogen Bridged Mixed Valence Compounds from FIR Reflectivity Measurements.- V Electrochemistry, Polyanilines I.- Structural Changes in Conducting Polymers upon Electrochemically Induced Redox Processes.- The Electrochemistry of Polypyrrole Derivatives.- Synthesis and Electrochemical Properties of Substituted Polyanilines.- Proton Exchange Processes in the Electrochemical Reactions of Polyaniline.- Electrochemical Investigations of Electronic Conducting Polymers.- Memory Effect in Conducting Polymers: Case of Polyaniline.- VI Magnetic Resonance.- Spin Dynamics and Conductivity in Conducting Polymers.- Pulsed ENDOR Spectroscopy of Stretch-Oriented Feast-Type Polyacetylene.- Cluster Versus Random Doping in Polyaniline: A NMR Approach Based on the 19F-19F Dipole-Dipole Coupling.- Intercalation of Alkali Ions in Polyacetylene: NMR Studies.- Radical Anion Salts of Dicyanochinondiimine (DCNQI) with Metallic Counterions: New Low-Dimensional Conducting Systems.- VII Nonlinear Optics.- The Role of Solitons in the Nonlinear Optical Properties of Polyenes and Polyacetylene Chains.- Electronic Structure and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Polythiophene, Polythieno[3, 4-C]thiophene and Polyisothianaphthene Oligomers and Their Vinylene Derivatives.- Nonlinear Optical Properties of Thin Films of Polymers with a One-Dimensional Conjugated ?-Electron System.- Influence of the Film Preparation on the Nonlinear Optical Properties of Phthalocyanine Films.- Third Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Precursor Route Poly(p-phenylene vinylene).- Development and Application of Optically Nonlinear Polymers.- Nonlinear Spectroscopy on Gap States of trans-Polyacetylene.- VIII Molecular Electronics.- Concepts of Molecular Information Storage.- Electronic Interferences Controlled by the Hydroquinone/Quinone Molecule Embedded in a (CH)x Chain.- Photodynamics of Reversible Charge Separation: A Molecular Model for a Cellular Automaton.- Progress Towards the Creation of a Three-Dimensional Molecular Memory.- Microelectronics of Artificial Neural Networks.- From Protein Engineering to Bioelectronics.- IX Polyanilines II.- Polyaniline: An Old Polymer with New Chemistry, New Physics, and Potential New Technology.- Characterization of Vapor-Deposited Polyaniline.- XPS Studies of Polyaniline.- Photoelectron Spectroscopic Study of Polyaniline as a Function of the Electrochemical Potential.- Spectroscopic Studies on the Electrochemical Doping of Polyaniline: Quantum Size Effects on the Metallic State.- In Situ Spectroscopy of Polyaniline.- In Situ FTIR Spectroscopy of Polyaniline Degradation.- Defect States in the Fully Oxidized Form of Polyaniline.- Oxidized Polyaniline: Effects of Protonation on the Electronic Structure of Pernigraniline.- Polaron-Induced Resonance Raman Scattering in Polyaniline.- X Polythiophenes.- Chromism in the Poly(3-alkylthiophenes).- Soluble Polyalkylthiophenes Obtained from Substituted Bithiophenes.- Conducting Polymers from 3, 4-Cycloalkylthiophenes.- Raman Spectroscopy of Anellated and Alkylated Polythiophenes.- Electronic Structure Studies of Undoped and Doped Polyisothianaphthene.- ?-Electronic Structure of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Studied by Photoelectron Spectroscopy.- XI Polyenes and Oligoenes.- Lowest Energy Excited Singlet States of 2, 2?:5?, 2?-Terthiophene and 2, 2?-Thienylpyrrole.- Studies of Soluble Pyrrole Oligomers.- Spectroscopic Studies of the Model Oligomer Alpha-Sexithienyl in Its Neutral and Doped States.- Investigation of the Transient Photocurrent in ?-Carotene and a Donor-Acceptor Substituted Polyene.- Langmuir-Blodgett Films from Donor-Acceptor Substituted Polyenes.- XII High Temperature Superconductors.- Electronic Structure Studies of High-Tc Superconductors.- Infrared Properties of High-Tc YBa2Cu3O7 Films.- Coexisting Superconducting Phases in Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Ceramics: New Features of Microwave Absorption.- XIII Applications.- Polypyrrole Supercapacitors.- Enzyme Entrapment in Conducting Organic Polymers: Application in Amperometric Biosensors.- Polymeric Semiconductor Devices.- Anisotropically Conducting Polyolefine/CT Complex Composites.- Post Polymerization Processing of Conductive Polymers (ICP): Integral Part of a New ICP Materials Science.- Recent Developments in the Chemistry and Applications of Electroactive Conjugated Polymers.- Layer-by-Layer Thin Film Deposition of Polypyrrole and Polyaniline.- Basic Polypyrrylenmethines - Chemical and Physical Properties.- Bridged Macrocyclic Transition Metal Complexes as Semiconducting Materials.- Progress in Science and Industrial Applications of Electroconducting Polymers and Related Compounds.- Index of Contributors.