Issue 33, 2008

A novel method for making highly dispersible conducting polymer and concentric graphitic carbon nano-spheres based on an undoped and functionalized polyaniline

Abstract

A novel method has been successfully established for making highly dispersible conducting polymer nano-spheres with conveniently controllable sizes directly from preformed, undoped, butylthio-functionalized polyaniline (Pani-SBu) in the absence of any stabilizer, surfactant, and/or functional protonic acid dopant. The success of this approach stemmed from the unique ability of Pani-SBu (prepared via the concurrent reduction and substitution method) to form a nanometer-sized spherical micelle-like self-assembly in the selected co-solvent medium as confirmed by dynamic light scattering studies. With further help of the dithiol treatment, the resultant soft non-isolable micelle-like self-assembly could then be converted into rigid, stable, and isolable nano-spheres. Preliminary studies indicated that these highly ordered undoped Pani-SBu nano-spheres could also serve as ideal precursor materials for making concentric graphitic carbon nano-spheres at relatively low processing temperatures.

Graphical abstract: A novel method for making highly dispersible conducting polymer and concentric graphitic carbon nano-spheres based on an undoped and functionalized polyaniline

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 Mar 2008
Accepted
08 May 2008
First published
13 Jun 2008

J. Mater. Chem., 2008,18, 3918-3925

A novel method for making highly dispersible conducting polymer and concentric graphitic carbon nano-spheres based on an undoped and functionalized polyaniline

C. Han, M. Bai, K. Yang, Y. Lee and C. Lin, J. Mater. Chem., 2008, 18, 3918 DOI: 10.1039/B804131H

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