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Synthetic Metals

Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 205-208
Synthetic Metals

Influence of the counterion size on the rate of electrochemical relaxation in polypyrrole

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Abstract

Oxidation chronoamperograms of highly compacted polypyrrole films were performed in propylene carbonate solutions containing different electrolytes (LiF, LiCl, LiBr and LiI), allowing the study of the effect of the counterion size on the rate of electrochemical switching controlled by conformational relaxation processes.

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