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MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 30, Issue 19, Pages 1663-1668Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/marc.200900244
Keywords
conducting polymers; nanotubes; polymeric materials; self-assembly
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- New Zealand Foundation for Science and Technology
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The identification and control of a critical stage of polyaniline nanotube self-assembly is presented, namely the granular agglomeration or growth onto nanorod templates. When the synthesis pH is held above 2.5, smooth insulating nanorods exhibiting hydrogen bonding and containing phenazine structures are produced, while below pH 2.5, small 15-30 nm granular polyaniline nanoparticles appear to agglomerate onto the available nanorod surface, apparently improving conductivity of the resulting structures by three orders of magnitude. This finding affects both fundamental theories of polyaniline nanostructure self-assembly and their practical applications.
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