An impressive emulsion polymerization route for the synthesis of highly soluble and conducting polyaniline salts

By Salma Bilal and Salma Gul and Rudolf Holze and Anwar-ul-Haq Ali Shah
Published in Synthetic Metals NULL 2015

Abstract

We report a sophisticated emulsion polymerization route for the synthesis of polyaniline (PANI) salts. In this process, the chemical oxidative polymerization of aniline was carried out in the presence of two dopants i.e., dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid (DBSA) and sulfuric acid (H2SO4). The synthesized \PANI\ salts were highly soluble in a large number and variety of common organic solvents (so far highest number of solvents including the less hazardous ethanol) and showed very good conductance. Presumably the presence of \DBSA\ and sulfuric acid moieties, respectively, contributed toward the improvement in solubility and conductance. After optimization of the reaction parameters, the obtained polymers were systematically characterized with cyclic voltammetry, in situ conductance, in situ UV

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