The Development of Conducting Polymers

In this paper, the advances concerning conducting polymers are addressed. The statistics figures show that "conducting polymer" has become a hot point In polymer material science field. Conducting polymers can be applied in many areas, such as sensors, separation materials, circuit boards, electrodes, EMI shielding materials, antistatic materials and etc.. Several important conducting polymers (poly acetylene, polyaniline, polypyrrole, polythiophene, polyphenylene) are simply mentioned. The disadvantages of conducting polymers and the possible solutions are discussed in this paper.