A thermoelectric material can convert temperature difference into electrical potential difference. Today, intensive researches are being carried out in order to use flexible, non-toxic and inexpensive conductive polymers instead of hard, hard-to-shape, expensive toxic semiconductor metals used as materials. Among the investigated for this purpose, poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) is mos...

A series of poly(o-/m-toluidine-co-o-/m-chloroaniline) copolymers of different compositions were synthesized by an emulsion method with ammonium persulfate as the oxidant. The conductivity of the copolymers was two to five orders of magnitude higher than that of the homopolymers poly(o-toluidine) and poly(m-chloroaniline). Among the copolymers, the copolymer of o-toluidine and m-chloroaniline e...

The carcinogen aniline is negative in the Ames Salmonella mutagenicity assay. Aniline does, however, induce intrachromosomal recombination between repeated sequences in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, resulting in deletion (DEL) of intervening sequences. We have investigated whether the generation of oxidative free radical species by aniline and/ or its metabolites may be responsible for its recombin...

Enhancement of aniline hydroxylation by Habu snake venom was studied in vitro. The fraction which was isolated from Habu venom through column chromatography caused the enhancement of aniline hydroxylation of hepatic microsomes obtained from untreated rats. This fraction was heat stable and free from phospholipase activity. Enhancement of aniline hydroxylation was not clear in crude Habu venom o...

The interactions of aniline with soil at an industrial spill site were investigated. Sorption of aniline to the soil was observed to occur through a two-step mechanism. The first step was an ion exchange process with the protonated amine serving as an organic cation. This step was influenced by solution pH and ionic composition. The second step was covalent bonding most likely with quinone moie...

Polyaniline itself can be converted to its conductive form from insulating by applying an oxidising potential in which polyaniline is positive charge state. Anions the target solution are driven into positively charged polymer film electrostatic force, and this process reversed when a reduction applied. Consequently, interfacial processes of modified electrode make it viable remove undesirable ...