Table of Contents

Part 1 Theory and transport in conductive polymers: electronic structure and optical response of highly conducting and semiconducting conjugated polymers and oligomers; metal-insulator transition in doped conductive polymers; insulator-metaltransition and inhomogeneous metallic state in conducting polymers; the dynamics of solitons in polyacetylene. Part 2 Synthesis of conducting polymers: synthesis of polyacetylene; synthesis of poly(paraphenylene)s; regioregular head-to-tail coupledpoly(3-alkythiophene) and its derivatives; recent advances in heteroaromatic copolymers. Part 3 Processing of conducting polymers: colloidal dispersions of conducting polymers; solution processing of conducting polymers - fibres and gels from emeraldinebase polyaniline; dispersion as the key to processing conductive polymers. Part 4 Properties of conducting polymers: electrochemistry of conducting polymers; doping of electroactive polymers by ion implantation and device achievement; optical probes ofphotoexcitations in conducting polymers; electronic and chemical structure of conjugated polymers and interfaces as studied by photoelectron spectroscopy. Part 5 Applications of conducting polymers: electroluminescence in conjugated polymers; fundamentalsof electroluminescence in paraphenylene-type conjugated polymers; corrosion protection of metals using conductive polymers; conducting polymers in microelectronics.