Abstract
Polyaniline (PANI) films with pyramidal shaped crystallites were prepared by self-organization on self-assembled monolayer (SAM) modified Si substrates. High-resolution atomic force microscopy (HR-AFM) shows that SAM has tridymite structural order and the PANI film has biphasic conformational morphology corresponding to face-on orientation and edge-on orientation. Order parameters obtained from power spectral density analysis of HR-AFM images of SAM and PANI films show that the pyramidal crystallites are in emeraldine salt (ES-I) form and the region between the crystallites is in emeraldine base (EB-II) form. The ordered lattice of PANI crystallites as observed by cross-sectional HR-TEM confirms its single crystalline nature as well as epitaxial growth. The heteroepitaxial growth of PANI is attributed to the structural order of interfacial SAM on Si.
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