Coordinated organogel templated fabrication of silver/polypyrrole composite nanowires

A new method to fabricate metal/conducting polymer composite nanowires is presented by taking silver/polypyrrole composite nanowires as an example. A silver (I)-coordinated organogel as template was prepared firstly, and redox-polymerization of pyrrole took place on the gel fiber, giving product of silver/polypyrrole nanowires. The silver/polypyrrole nanowires were characterized by multiple techniques. This strategy could be carried out in one-step procedure at room temperature, and it proves the utility of coordinated organogels in template synthesis of polymer nanostructures. (C) 2010 Li Ming Tang. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Chinese Chemical Society. All rights reserved.