Conjugated Polymers with Self‐Immolative Sidechain Linkers for Carbon Nanotube Dispersion (Small 28/2024)

Carbon Nanotubes In article number 2310257, Xiao Yu and Alex Adronov describe a conjugated polymer bearing self-immolative sidechains. The sidechains are stabilized with an end-cap (“lock”) that is easily “unlocked” with an appropriate “key”. The polymer disperses single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), and treatment with the “key” enhances the conductivity of polymer-SWNT thin films by nearly 60-fold, allowing current to flow.