Investigation of Copolymers of Thiophene‐Functionalized Polystyrene with Pyrrole by Pyrolysis Mass Spectrometry

Abstract

The thermal and structural characterization of electrochemically synthesized thiophene‐functionalized polystyrene and pyrrole (PS/PPy) and their copolymers were investigated by direct pyrolysis mass spectrometry. The pyrolysis data confirmed the growth of polypyrrole onto the pendant thiophene moiety of polystyrene. It is determined that the electrolytic film has different properties from the mechanical mixture and the related homopolymers.

Keywords:

• pyrolysis mass spectrometry
• graft copolymer
• conducting copolymers
• polypyrrole