Hybrid Materials Based on Modification with Conducting Polymers

4 HYBRID MATERIALS BASED ON MODIFICATION WITH CONDUCTING POLYMERS 

Different hybrid materials formed by insertion of organic polymers into inorganic substrates have been prepared. Layered materials are well known as host matrices for the incorporation of a large variety of polymeric organic species. Generally, the inorganic part is finely dispersed or exfoliated within the polymer, but, alternatively, the polymer can form laminae intercalated in laminar solids. This is the case for layered double hydroxides (LDHs, see Chapter 6), whose structure is closely related to that of the brucite, Mg(OH), in which the partial substitution of some of the divalent 

FIGURE 8.7 CVs of glassy carbon electrodes modified with ZnAINO, -I.DH-PANI immersed into 0.50 M phosphate buffer (pH 7.0). (a) Initial anodic scan (b) initial cathodic scan. Potential scan rate, 50 mV/sec. (From Domenech et al., 2008. J. Electroanal. Chem. 624, 275-286, with permission.) 

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