Synthesis of Water Soluble Oligomer of Pyrrole for Tissue Engineering Applications

Conductive polymers have been widely used in biomedical applications such as biosensors and tissue engineering but their non-degradability still poses a limitation. Therefore, great attention has been directed toward the degradable and electrically conductive polymers. There are different strategies for the synthesis of degradable and conducting polymers. In the present work an attempt has been made to synthesize a water soluble oligomer of pyrrole using APS (Ammonium Peroxy Disulfate) as dopant and imidazolium-based ionic liquids as catalyst. Synthesized oligomer was characterized by FTIR, XRD, SEM, and two probe KEITHEY. The analysis of the oligomer revealed high electro-conductivity in aqueous media. We believe the synthesized oligomer presented here possesses the desired potentials to be used for tissue engineering

کلیدواژه ها:

conductive polymers ، water soluble and electrically conductive oligomer ، oligomer of pyrrole ، imidazolium-based ، ionic liquids ، stabilizer ، APS ، tissue engineering