Polyaniline Nanostructures: Techniques in Structure-Tailored Polymerisation-Superstructures

Abstract

Polyaniline (PANI) is one of the widely studied conducting polymers. As such it is one of the widely applied conducting polymers for laboratory bench work applications. The limitation to application in commercial work has been hampered by the inherent difficulty of a polymer being processed once synthesised. The solution to this lies in synthesising the PANI that has uniform structures ready for application in that form or creating a composite with other molecules that bring about the level of processability to acceptable processible levels. This paper seeks to outline the general synthetic underlying principles behind the synthesis of PANI that may bear the structural nature for ready-to-apply or processible to some extent for possible application. The paper outlines the general synthetic concept framework for one to manipulate for suited use.