All conductive polymers are insoluble in any known solvent, rather they form fine dispersions. However substitutive classical conductive polymers show enhanced solubility in specific solvents. So it depends on which conductive polymer you are dealing with. This situation was a vaste area of discussions where Dr. Bernhard Wressling is among the most scientists who were involved in these discussions. I advise you to contact him or to look in this site (researchgate) on the questions on conductive polymers. Regards
Clevios PEDOT is water based, PAni can be dispersed in DMF, not easy (because if you run just an "easy" PAni polymerisation, you can not produce good dispersions in DMF).
Hello everyone, thanks for you replies. As suggested, i have gone through many posts and many a patient replies from Dr.Wessling. His replies were critical is me making my question about have a dispersion of conducting polymers not solubility of CPs.
Yes, i will surely be looking into PANI. Hopefully if i can high degree of dispersion it would be excellent. DMF is a good solvent but i would looking a more volatile solvent. Any combination of CPs and OS, i am willing to look into. Since the work in at the basic structural stage, i have substantial freedom to "play around" with my experiments.
What you may also want to look at is a combination of solvents, first you disperse your PAni in the best solvent you think of, the you add another OS compatible with it which (you need to test) does not cause the PAni dispersion to flocculate.
That 2nd OS should be more volatile, then you will get a nice and better volatile dispersion. You can play with solvents which form azeotropes, but even if not, you can already drive DMSO out with another more volatile solvent.
You can also use a 3rd one, we did all of this ad had quite good success. (you may be able to find some hints or ideas in some of my patents, you can also search via RG, but maybe more easily via my homepage http://www.bernhard-wessling.com/, there you click on " research and development of conductive polymers (polyaniline) and author of numerous scientific articles and patents", there you see "Scientific papers/patents:
1981 - 1996
1996 - 2008
2008 - 2012", best chance to find is 1996 - 2008, look for titles referring to conductivity, high conductivity).
Let me know about your progress / questions, as you observed, I am patient and may be able to help you every once in a while.