Structurally stabilized polystannanes

导电聚合物传统上是建立在有机框架上的，通常需要氧化或还原性掺杂才能有效导电。这些导电有机塑料依靠离域pi网络和小带隙来传输电子。与碳基固有导电聚合物不同，以硅、锗或锡原子为骨架的无机均聚物利用sigma离域来导电。在这些14族元素中，锡的均聚物最能模拟其元素形式，并在其自然状态下显示半导体特性，并且在掺杂时可以制成高导电性。用这些材料制造器件或制备一维导电聚合物导线的前景一直受到它们对光和湿的极端敏感性的阻碍。

Conductive polymers have traditionally been built on organic frameworks and often require oxidative or reductive doping to effectively conduct electricity. These conductive organic plastics rely on a delocalized pi network and small band gaps in order to transport electrons. Unlike carbon based intrinsically conducting polymers, inorganic homopolymers with backbones of silicon, germanium or tin atoms utilize sigma delocalization to be conductive. Of these Group 14 elements, the homopolymers of tin best emulate its elemental form and display semi-conducting properties in its natural state and can be made highly conducting when doped. The promise of fabricating devices or preparing one-dimensional conductive polymeric wires with these materials has been hampered by their extreme light and moisture sensitivity.