Graft polymerization has been used, for the first time, to prepare a dense conductive polymer coating on free-standing luminescent silicon nanoparticles. The silicon nanoparticles maintained their photoluminescence and crystallinity after surface modification. The nanoparticles were first surface hydroxylated and then reacted with (3-bromopropyl)trichlorosilane to form a dense bromopropylsilane...

Polyaniline (PANi)-grafted multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWNT) composite is prepared by a two-step reaction sequence. MWNT is first functionalized with 4-aminobenzoic acid in polyphosphoric acid/phosphorous pentoxide as a ‘‘direct’’ Friedel-Crafts acylation reaction medium. The resultant 4-aminobenzoyl-functionalized MWNT is then treated with aniline using ammonium persulfate/aqueous hydrochlori...

Introduction Organic thin-film transistors (TFT) have received considerable attention due to promises of low manufacturing costs, ease of processibility, and extendibility to flexible circuits. The feasibility of organic TFTs has largely been demonstrated with devices that use metal source and drain electrodes, such as gold and palladium. Such devices, when fabricated in the bottom-contact (BC)...

• Novel approach for preparation of PANI/polysaccharide composites was proposed. Conducting PANI with chitosan or sodium hyaluronate were prepared. Composites cytocompatible human induced pluripotent stem cells. exhibited antibacterial activity. composite films combining biocompatible polysaccharides conducting polyaniline (PANI) prepared via the in-situ polymerization aniline hydrochloride in ...

A fiber coating from polyaniline (PANI) was electrochemically prepared and employed for Solid phase micreoextraction (SPME). The PANI film was directly electrodeposited on the platinum wire surface using cyclic voltametry (CV) technique. The same method was applied for the preparation of SPME fiber coated by polyaniline multiwalled carbon nanotubes (PANI/MWCNTs) composite. The concentration of ...

We report the design and preparation of graphene and polyaniline (PANI) woven-fabric composite films by in situ electropolymerization. The introduction of PANI greatly improves the electrochemical properties of solid-state supercapacitors which possess capacitances as high as 23 mF cm(-2), and exhibit excellent cycling stability with ∼ 100% capacitance retention after 2000 cycles. The devices h...

Polyvinylpyrrolidone/polyaniline emeraldine salt (PVP/PANI) with additives (TiO2, ZnO, NaCl, and Na2SO4) was synthesized via oxidative in situ polymerization. Because of using PVP/PANI as a protective membrane layer and its applications in an electrical device, we investigated the mechanical and rheological properties of PVP/PANI and other composites in orde...

The fabrication of a gas nanosensor for detecting ammonia gas in air that is unaffected by humidity is demonstrated. On functionalizing single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) networks with a precise amount of camphorsulfonic-acid-doped polyaniline (PANI(CSA)), the opposite electrical resistance responses of the CSA-doped PANI and SWNTs to humid air effectively canceled each other, thereby elimina...