SYNTHESIS OF ORGANIC ELECTROACTIVE MATERIALS IN IONIC LIQUIDS - Electrochemical Nanofabrication: Principles and Applications - page 125

Cyclic voltammograms in the course of polymerization of aniline
for 25 potential scan cycles. Electrolytic solution: (a) 0.5M aniline in 1.0 M
CF
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Figure 3.4

SO H + H O; (b) 1.0M aniline in 1.0M CF SO H + [EMIM][OTf ]. Reprinted

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from , Sekiguchi, K., Atobe, M., and Fuchigami, T.,

Electrooxidative polymerization of aromatic compounds in 1-ethyl-3-
methylimidazolium trifluoromethanesulfonate room-temperature ionic
liquid, 1-7, Copyright (2003), with permission from Elsevier.

J. Electroanal. Chem ., 557

The Fuchigami group electrosynthesized PANI in [EMIM][OTf ]
[62]. Since the synthesis of this polymer is usually made in acidic
aqueous solutions [63], the IL was mixed with CF

SO H, which

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