Download or read book Semiconducting and Metallic Covalent Polymers: (CH)X and Its Derivatives written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POLYACETYLENE, (CH)x, is the simplest possible conjugated organic polymer and is therefore of special fundamental interest. It can be prepared in the form of lustrous, silvery, flexible, polycrystalline films having any desired cis/trans content by catalytic polymerization of gaseous acetylene, C2H2. The cis-rich films can be stretched easily at room temperature in excess of three times their original length with concomitant partial alignment of the (CH)x fibrils. Dark red gels of toluene in (CH)x may be prepared using a lower catalyst concentration. Highly porous, very low density, 'foam-like' (CH)x can be obtained from these gels. Both cis- and trans-(CH)x are p-type semiconductors which can be treated with a variety of p- or n-type dopants with concomitant increase in conductivity to give a series of semiconductors and ultimately, 'organic metals'. This report will be directed primarily towards a description of the more chemically oriented aspects of (CH)x and its derivatives. (Author).