Claims
- 1. A method for the production of a processable conductive polymer which comprises electropolymerizing an electropolymeriable monomer in an electrolytic medium comprising a reaction solvent; an electropolymerizable monomer exhibiting solubility in said reaction solvent and having an oxidation potential below that of the solvent; and a polymeric electrolyte having anionic surface character, said polymeric electrolyte being present in said electrolytic medium in a dispersed phase during the electropolymerization of the electropolymerizable monomer.
- 2. The method of claim 1 wherein said polymer electrolyte present in said electrolytic medium in a dispersed phase comprises polymeric latex particles.
- 3. The method of claim 2 wherein said polymeric latex particles include repeating units from an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable monomer having a strong anionic group, said repeating units being suficient to confer said anionic surface character to said polymeric latex particles.
- 4. The method of claim 3 wherein said anionic group comprises a sulfate or sulfonate group.
- 5. The method of claim 2 wherein said polymeric latex particles include an anionic surfactant therein, said sulfactant being sufficient to confer said anionic surface character to said polymer latex particles.
- 6. The method of claim 5 wherein said surfactant has a sulfate or sulfonate anionic moiety.
- 7. The method of claim 1 wherein said electropolymerizable monomer comprises a compound of the formula ##STR6## wherein each of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 is independently hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, alkaryl or aralkyl, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 together comprises the atoms necessary to complete a cyclic structure; and X is --O--, --S-- or ##STR7## wherein R.sup.3 is hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, alkaryl or aralkyl.
- 8. The method of claim 7 wherein X is ##STR8##
- 9. The method of claim 8 wherein R.sup.3 is hydrogen.
- 10. The method of claim 1 wherein said conductive polymer is recorded by removal thereof from an anode.
Parent Case Info
This is a division of application Ser. No. 06/595,667, filed Apr. 2, 1984.
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