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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1997
Lawrence W Shacklette, Maplewood, NJ (US);
Granville G Miller, Birmingham, AL (US);
Chien-Chung Han, Madison, NJ (US);
Ronald L Elsenbaumer, Arlington, TX (US);
Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
An electrically conductive conjugated polymer particle comprising an ionized electrically conductive substituted or unsubstituted conjugated polymer doped with one or more dopant solutes having one or more anionic moieties at least one of said dopants predominating at or near the surface of said particle having at least one aliphatic chain of at least 3 carbon atoms wherein the sum of such chains contain at least 12 aliphatic carbon atoms when an anionic functionality is bonded directly to an aromatic moiety and at least about 6 carbon atoms when the anionic functionality is bonded directly to an aliphatic moiety.