Solution processible forms of electrically conductive polyaniline

Claim 1

A conductive material selected from the group consisting of solutions and plasticized compounds comprising one or more solvents selected from the group consisting of solvents having a dielectric constant equal to or greater than about 25 and a dipole moment equal to or greater than about 3.25; one or more dopant solutes selected from the group consisting of oxidizing dopants which form a charge transfer complex with the polyaniline having a conductivity equal to or greater than about 10 -3 ohm -1 cm -1 ; and a substituted or unsubstituted polyaniline having a molecular weight or greater than about 15,000 prepared by polymerizing an aniline of the Formula I: ##STR3## wherein: n is an integer from 0 to 4; m is an integer from 0 to 5 with proviso that the sum of n and m is 5; R is the same or different at each occurrence and is alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxy, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, alkanoyl, alkylthio, aryloxy, alkylthioalkyl, alkylaryl, arylalkyl, alkylsulfinyl, alkoxyalkyl, alksulfonyl, aryl, arylthio, arylsulfinyl, alkoxycarbonyl, arylsulfonyl, carboxylic acid, halogen, cyano, or alkyl substituted with one or more sulfonic acid, carboxylic acid, halogen, nitro, cyano or epoxy moieties; or any two R substitutents taken together are an alkylene or alkenylene group completing a 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 membered aromatic or alicyclic carbon ring, which ring may include one or more divalent heteroatoms of nitrogen, sulfur, sulfinyl, sulfonyl or oxygen.