Self-Doped Polyaniline Nanostructures

G. Li, C. Zhang, H. Peng, K. Chen, and Z. Zhang, Hollow self-doped polyaniline micro/ nanostructures Microspheres, aligned pearls, and nanotubes, Macromol. Rapid Common., 29, 1954-1958 (2008). 

Self-doped polyanilines are advantageous due to properties such as solubility, pH independence, redox activity and conductivity. These properties make them more promising in various applications such as energy conversion devices, sensors, electrochromic devices, etc. (see Chapter 1, section 1.6). Several studies have focused on the preparation of self-doped polyaniline nanostructures (i.e., nanoparticles, nanofibers, nanofilms, nanocomposites, etc.) and their applications. Buttry and Tor-resi et al. [51, 244, 245] prepared the nanocomposites from self-doped polyaniline, poly(N-propane sulfonic acid, aniline) and V2O5 for Li secondary battery cathodes. The self-doped polyaniline was used instead of conventional polyaniline to minimize the anion participation in the charge-discharge process and maximize the transport number of Li". In lithium batteries, it is desirable that only lithium cations intercalate into the cathode, because this leads to the use of small amounts of electrolyte... 

C. Cheng, J. Jiang, R. Tang, and F. Xi, Polyaniline nanostructures doped with mono-sulfonated dendrons via a self-assemhly process, Synth. Met., 145, 61-65 (2004). 

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