Answer to Question #156869 in Organic Chemistry for Sridhar

Question

reason for decrease in mobility of the charge carriers and thereby decrease the conductivity of conjugated polymers is

Answer 1

However, the conductivity of these polymers is a rather low attraction to its counterion which has normally much lower mobility. Thus, it is not the counter ion, such as I3^- or Na⁺, but the charges on the polymer backbone that are The conductivity² of a material depends on both the density of charge carriers