Radical Polyesters: Connecting Spacer Structure to Bulk Electrical Conductivity
Kieran G. Stakem, Simon J. Cassidy, William K. Myers, Georgina L. Gregory · 2026
Read Radical Polyesters: Connecting Spacer Structure to Bulk Electrical Conductivity by Kieran G. Stakem, Simon J. Cassidy, William K. Myers, Georgina L. Gregory (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13394413.txt.
Description
Kieran G. Stakem and colleagues ask, in 2026, what sets how well radical plastics carry electric charge. These plastics hold stable radical units, named TEMPO, along their backbones. The team built chains by joining two ring-shaped building blocks, swapping one to change the spacer between radicals. They checked radical counts with magnetic tests and modelled the chain shapes.
Stiff spacers placed radicals closer than soft ones of like length. Still, charge flow in solid samples tracked the glass point, the heat at which the plastic softens. Blends and block chains that shifted that point shifted flow too. The authors say heat behaviour, not spacing alone, rules these materials.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kieran G. Stakem, Simon J. Cassidy, William K. Myers, Georgina L. Gregory |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 22287 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |