The assembly mechanism by which hundreds of thousands of two-segment gold-polypyrrole nanorods are assembled into kinetically controlled shape-directed superstructures is examined to predict the range of nanoparticle sizes and materials that can be utilized in their formation. Four processes are responsible for assembly: templating, capillary force assembly, adhesion, and polymer hydration. It ...

A simple, one-step method for fabricating single biologically functionalized conducting-polymer (polypyrrole) nanowire on prepatterned electrodes and its application to biosensing was demonstrated. The biologically functionalized polypyrrole was formed by the electropolymerization of an aqueous solution of pyrrole monomer and the model biomolecule, avidin- or streptavidin-conjugated ZnSe/CdSe q...

Polypyrrole/Co0.2CrOx, (PPy/Co0.2CrOx) composites were synthesized by polymerizing pyrrole onto the surface of cobalt chromium oxide (CrOx) in acidic media. The PPy/Co0.2CrOx composites increase the reversible capacity of the electrochemically active material up to 20%. At C/10 rate, a reversible capacity of 215 mAh/g was obtained for PPy/Co0.2CrOx composite, compared to 178 mAh/g for the virgi...

The significance of developing implantable, biocompatible, miniature power sources operated in a low current range has become manifest in recent years to meet the demands of the fast-growing market for biomedical microdevices. In this work, we focus on developing high-performance cathode material for biocompatible zinc/polymer batteries utilizing biofluids as electrolyte. Conductive polymers an...

A simple hydrothermal redox reaction between microcrystalline CuOHCl and pyrrole leads to the isolation of striking nanostructures formed by polypyrrole-coated copper nanocables. These multicomponent cables that feature single-crystalline face-centered cubic Cu cores (ca. 300 nm wide and up to 200 μm long) are smoothly coated by conducting polypyrrole, which in addition to its functionality, of...

Urease has been covalently immobilized on polypyrrole microspheres chemically linked to conducting polypyrrole-polyvinyl sulfonate (PPY-PVS) films. These films were electrochemically prepared during 5 7 min at a constant current of 2 mA using indium tin oxide (ITO) glass plates as the working electrode, and a standard calomel electrode as the reference electrode. Urease covalently linked to pol...

Flexible thermoelectric composite films of polypyrrole (PPy) nanotubes coated paper were fabricated by an in-situ polymerization procedure using methyl orange as a template and paper as the substrate for the first time. Both the electrical conductivity and Seebeck coefficient of the polypyrrole nanotubes coated paper composite films have been enhanced (from ~0.048 S/cm to ~0.068 S/cm and from ~...

Polypyrrole is a material with immensely useful properties suitable for a wide range of electrochemical applications, but its development has been hindered by cumbersome manufacturing processes. Here we show that a simple modification to the standard electrochemical polymerization method produces polypyrrole films of equivalently high conductivity and superior mechanical properties in one-tenth...

The interface between micromachined neural microelectrodes and neural tissue plays an important role in chronic in vivo recording. Electrochemical polymerization was used to optimize the surface of the metal electrode sites. Electrically conductive polymers (polypyrrole) combined with biomolecules having cell adhesion functionality were deposited with great precision onto microelectrode sites o...

This paper presents sonochemically deposited polypyrrole films and their characteristics of adhesion on substrate with related to the surface roughness and morphology by comparing to the conventional films deposited electrochemically. In particular, the use of high frequency sonication (500 kHz) for sonoelectrochemical deposition of polypyrrole was reported for the first time. Chronocoulometry ...