Experimental investigations into charge and spin carriers in polyaniline.

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Conductivity and electron spin resonance measurements have been performed on solution doped polyaniline (PANi). It is proposed that both camphor-sulphonic acid (CSA) and 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-l-propanesulphonic acid (AMPSA) doped PANi can be described by the same model. It is suggested that the polyaniline materials are composed of differently ordered layers, a highly ordered region forming the core of the crystallites. The core of the crystallites are believed to be encapsulated within a semi- ordered region, with the crystallites themselves being dispersed in an amorphous polymer matrix. The conductivity measurements and ESR results described in this work support the proposal that within the highly ordered region of doped polyaniline crystallites, a polaronic lattice exists. The polaronic lattice facilitates "free" carriers which are responsible for "metallic" conduction within the crystallites. Encapsulating the polaronic lattice is a semi-ordered region in which (partially) mobile

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