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intrinsically conducting polymer. Its complex with polystyrene sulfonic acid (PSS) attracts general interest ([1] and citations therein). The dispersion of the PEDT/PSS complex is usually prepared by an oxidative oligomerization of ethylenedioxythiophene (EDT) in the water solution in the presence of the soluble charge balancing and stabilizing polyanion of PSS. The oxidation (doping) process controls the number of the supposed ionic groups but the positions of the latter are random and not controlled (Fig. 1). The electrophoretic and viscosity characteristics of the swollen particles present in the dispersion are similar to those of nonstoichiometric polyelectrolyte complexes [2].
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Kaevand, T., Öpik, A., Lille, Ü. (2008). A Mesoscale Simulation of the Morphology of the PEDT/PSS Complex in the Water Dispersion and Thin Film: the Use of the MesoDyn Simulation Code. In: Sobh, T. (eds) Advances in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8741-7_96
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