Synthesis and electrical conductivity of poly(methacrylamide) (PMAA) with fixed length oligoaniline as side chains

A novel conductive polymer, poly(methacrylamide) with fixed conjugated length of oligoaniline as side group and methylacrylamide as the backbone, has been successfully synthesized via the radical polymerization of the relatively acrylamide monomer. The new polymer, which represents a genuine molecular composite material with well-defined structure, has high molecular weight, good solubility in common organic solvent, and good film-forming properties. Its conductivity is ca. 10− 4 S/cm upon preliminarily protonic-doped experiment. This synthetic strategy appears to be developed as a novel way to design and synthesize new materials to solve the problems that exist in traditional blended conductive polymer composites materials, such as phase separation, migration, extraction, etc.