title: Superhydrophobic polyaniline hollow bars: constructed with nanorod-arrays based on self-removing metal-monomeric template.
abstract: Superhydrophobic hollow polyaniline (PANI) bars assembled from nanorod-arrays were prepared in the presence of metal-monomeric template. Toward preparing these PANI bars, self-assembling and "template" methods were simultaneously applied. The self-removing metal-monomeric "template" was probably formed when a high concentration of aniline (0.5 M) was added into the cadmium acetate solution, and then decomposed gradually during the oxidative polymerization of aniline. In addition, a superhydrophobic flower-like PANI hierarchical structure was also prepared without the "template" (cadmium acetate aqueous solution containing a low concentration of aniline (0.05 M)). The formation mechanism of the hollow PANI bars was discussed.
authors: College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China. wbzhong@hnu.cn
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authors: Zhong
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authors: Wang
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