A general route to nanofibers of substituted polyanilines

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Henry D. Tran and Richard B. Kaner, kaner@chem.ucla.edu. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, 607 Charles E. Young Drive East, Box 951569, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Nanofibers of a wide variety of polyaniline derivatives can be synthesized without the need for templates or functional dopants. By simply introducing an initiator into the reaction mixture of a rapidly mixed reaction between monomer and oxidant, uniform nanofibers of tunable diameter between 25 nm and 120 nm are formed. The polyaniline derivatives are highly processable with stable dispersions readily prepared at a concentration far higher than that of the parent polymer. Selected examples of copolymers are also presented.
 

General Papers: Polymers in Nanotechnology
6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Sunday, 10 September 2006 Moscone Center -- Hall D, Poster

Division of Polymer Chemistry

The 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006