Materials Chemistry and Physics, Vol.112, No.2, 322-324, 2008
Uniform rice-like nanostructured polyanilines with highly crystallinity prepared in dodecylbenzene sulfonic acid micelles
Highly crystalline polyanilines (PAni) with uniform rice-like nanostructures, ca. 50-130 run in diameter and 130-260 nm in length were successfully prepared in the presence of dodecylbenzene sulfortic acid (DBSA) without stirring, and characterized by SEM, FTIR, UV-vis and XRD measurements. The formation of aniline/DBSA salts insoluble in reaction system without stirring is believed to be favorable for the formation of this uniform rice-like nanostructures. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.