Cover Picture: Synthesis of Polyaniline Nanotubes with a Reactive Template of Manganese Oxide (Adv. Mater. 3/2007)

✍ Scribed by L. J. Pan; L. Pu; Y. Shi; S. Y. Song; Z. Xu; R. Zhang; Y. D. Zheng

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 819 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0935-9648
• DOI: 10.1002/adma.200790011

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Polyaniline nanotubes can be synthesized through a chemical template method. The shape and major parameters of the tubes are precisely controlled by the reactive templates of MnO~2~ nanowires, which also act as the oxidative initiator for polymerization. The cover image shows an example where the rectangular tubes are cloned from the cryptomelane‐phase MnO~2~, as reported on p. 461 by Shi and co‐workers.