Patent ID: 9558863
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: C08F,H01B,Y10S

Claim:
1. A polymer and nanoparticle combination comprising: a conductive copolymer having one or more first conductive monomers and one or more second conductive monomers, wherein the one or more first conductive monomers and the one or more second conductive monomers are copolymerized to form the conductive copolymer; a conductive nanoparticle covalently bound to a first end of a linker and a second end of the linker being covalently bound to the one or more second conductive monomers of the conductive copolymer, the linker being selected from the group consisting of butanethiol, pentanethiol, hexanethiol and heptanethiol; wherein the one or more first conductive monomers have a structure of Formula 3, or an analog or derivative thereof: where X 1 is S; and R 2 and R 2 ′ are substituents such that the one or more first conductive monomers include 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene; and wherein the one or more second conductive monomers have a structure of Formula 1: where: A is thiophene.