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Electrosynthesis of Polysilane

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Introduction

Polysilanes (Fig. 1) [1] have attracted considerable attention due to their usefulness as precursors for thermally stable ceramics [2, 3] or a material for microlithography [4, 5] and also due to their potentiality in preparation of new types of material showing semiconducting, photoconducting, or nonlinear optical property [6–8].

Electrosynthesis of Polysilane, Fig. 1
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Polysilanes

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Ishifune, M. (2014). Electrosynthesis of Polysilane. In: Kreysa, G., Ota, Ki., Savinell, R.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Applied Electrochemistry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6996-5_360

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