Novel colloidal polyaniline–silica composites

Abstract

We have prepared novel colloidal polyaniline–silica composites by chemically polymerising aniline in the presence of small silica particles of 38 ± 7 nm diameter; these composites have been characterised by various techniques including thermogravimetry micoanalyses, scaning, electron microscopy, photon correlation spectroscopy, visible absorption and FTIR spectroscopy and conductivity measurements.