TY - GEN A1 - Lamprakopoulos, Stelios A1 - Schmeißer, Dieter A1 - Anastassopoulou, Jane A1 - Theophanides, Theophile A1 - Yfantis, Alexandros D. T1 - An FTIR study of the role of H2O and D2O in the aging mechanism of conductive polypyrroles T2 - Synthetic Metals N2 - In the present work the role of H2O was studied by conductivity measurements and FTIR spectroscopy using the isotopic effect of deuterium in order to elucidate the aging mechanism of conductivity of polypyrroles. Polypyrrole was prepared with PTS as a dopant, by using deuterated water. Conductivity measurements showed changes due to structural water and atmospheric humidity. The FTIR absorption spectra indicated that the most probable structure of polypyrrole is the two-dimensional one. This finding could be attributed to the inhibition of polypyrrole's IR modes. The infrared spectrum analysis show that the gamma -NH bending mode of pyrrole has significantly changed after polymerization of pyrrole and this result is in accordance with XPS measurements. KW - Polypyrrole KW - Conductivity KW - FTIR KW - Isotopic effect Y1 - 2004 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.synthmet.2004.03.006 SN - 0379-6779 VL - 144 IS - 3 SP - 229 EP - 234 ER -