ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
Conductive polymers has been a rapidly expanding field of cross-disciplinary research (Roth and Filzmoser 1990) ever since the discovery that polyacetylene will become electrically conducting after treatments with oxidizing or reducing agents (Chiang et al. 1977). A topical conference just now being organized for September 1990 in Tübingen will have to deal with as much as 800 original scientific contributions (Hanack and Roth 1990). Recent review papers have been published amongst others by Roth and Filzmoser (1990), Yu Lu (1988), Heeger et al. (1988), Roth and Bleier (1987), and Skotheim (1986). One of the latest achievements is the synthesis of polyacetylene samples with conductivities after doping in excess of 105 S/cm, i.e. nearly as high as that of copper at room temperature (Naarmann and Theophilou 1987, Tsukamoto et al. 1990).
