Abstract
In this letter, we report the electrical properties of hollow polyaniline (PANI) microspheres. β-naphthalene sulfonic acid (NSA) and salicylic acid (SA) doped PANI microspheres were synthesized by a self-assembly method. The room-temperature conductivity is 8.6×10−2 S/cm for PANI–NSA microspheres (0.8–2 μm in outer diameter) and 5.6×10−4 S/cm for PANI–SA microspheres (3–7 μm in outer diameter). The conductivity of an individual PANI–SA microsphere is measured directly by a two-probe technique, about 8×10−2 S/cm (which is two orders of magnitude higher than that of a PANI–SA microsphere’s pellet). The measurements of conductivity, I–V curve, and magnetoresistance demonstrate that the electrical properties of PANI microspheres are dominated by the intersphere contacts due to the sample’s microscopic inhomogeneity.
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