Polyaniline
“Polyaniline(PANI) is a conducting polymer of the semi-flexible rod polymer family. Although the compound itself was discovered over 150 years ago, only since the early 1980s has polyaniline captured the intense attention of the scientific community. This is due to the rediscovery of its high electrical conductivity. Amongst the family of conducting polymers and organic semiconductors, polyaniline is unique due to its ease of synthesis, environmental stability, and simple doping/dedoping chemistry. Although the synthetic methods to produce polyaniline are quite simple, its mechanism of polymerization and the exact nature of its oxidation chemistry are quite complex. Because of its rich chemistry, polyaniline is one of the most studied conducting polymers of the past 50 years.” (Wikipedia, Polyaniline, 5/16/2011)
Recent Journal Articles
Synthesis and characterization of a novel electroactive polymer with oligoaniline and nitrile groups
(443-448) Journal of Polymer Research 18 #3 (2011)
He et al , China, synthesized an electroactive polymer by oxidative coupling polymerization with alternating phenyl-capped aniline tetramer in the main chain and nitrile group in the side chain. Cyclic voltammograms (CV), showed that the intrinsic electroactivity of the oligoaniline was maintained in the polymer with two distinct reversible oxidative states. (RDC 4/21/2011).