TY - JOUR AB - This study examines the efficacy of primary and secondary nucleation for electrochemical polymerisation of conductive polymers within poly(vinyl alcohol) methacrylate hydrogels. The two methods of nucleation investigated were a primary heterogeneous mechanism via introduction of conductive bulk metallic glass (Mg 64 Zn 30 Ca 5 Na 1 ) particles and a secondary mechanism via introduction of "pre-polymerised" conducting polymer within the hydrogel (PEDOT:PSS). Evidence of nucleation was not seen in the bulk metallic glass loaded gels, however, the PEDOT:PSS loaded gels produced charge storage capacities over 15 mC/cm 2 when sufficient polymer was loaded. These studies support the hypothesis that secondary nucleation is an efficient approach to producing stand-alone conducting hydrogels. AU - Patton,AJ AU - Green,RA AU - Poole-Warren,LA DO - 10.1063/1.4904820 PY - 2015/// SN - 2166-532X TI - Mediating conducting polymer growth within hydrogels by controlling nucleation T2 - APL Materials UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4904820 VL - 3 ER -