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Inside Cover, Volume 131, Issue 18
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.41124
Subject(s) - polyaniline , aniline , mesophase , cyclohexane , cover (algebra) , liquid crystal , materials science , pulmonary surfactant , nanotechnology , polymer , chemical engineering , polymer science , chemistry , composite material , organic chemistry , polymerization , optoelectronics , mechanical engineering , engineering
Polyaniline is one of the most studied intrinsically conducting polymers due to its ease of synthesis, environmental stability, and the tunability of its electrical properties. Nanostructured polyaniline provides a much higher surface area than micro or macro‐structured polyaniline enhancing its performance in surface sensitive applications. Sunil Dutt and Prem Felix Siril achieved morphology controlled synthesis of polyaniline nanostructures using swollen liquid crystals as structure directing templates. Swollen liquid crystals are formed by a quaternary mixture of surfactant, co‐surfactant, water, and oil. A mixture of aniline and cyclohexane was used as the oil phase to prepare aniline containing swollen liquid crystals. The cover features a polarized optical microscopic image of the mesophase containing aniline. (DOI: 10.1002/app.40800 )