Photoelectrochemical behavior of poly-3-methylthiopheneстатья
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Аннотация:Photoelectrochemical behavior of poly-3-methylthiophene films on a platinum support was investigated in acetonitrilic solutions. At negative potentials, a cathodic photocurrent was exhibited by the electrode, and the magnitude increased when the electrode was exposed to light at those potentials. Such a photoactivation phenomenon, as well as the experimentally observed above-linear dependence of the photocurrent magnitude on the light intensity, were attributed to photoelectrochemical reduction (undoping) of the polymer itself, which gives rise to an increase in the width of a space-charge region where the photocurrent generation occurs. The regularities observed suggest that this region is localized near the metal/polymer interface.