Research Article

Synthesis of Hollow Conductive Polypyrrole Balls by the Functionalized Polystyrene as Template

Table 1

Conductivity of the CSCBs and HSPBs by a standard 4-point probe technique at room temperature(a).

CSCBs with core-P S ( b ) CSCBs with core PSMACSCBs with core PSVBCSCBs with core-PSVCCSCBs with core-PSSSHSPB s ( c )

0.3 s/c m 2 0.20 s/c m 2 0.40 s/c m 2 0.67 s/c m 2 0.90 s/c m 2 0.25 s/c m 2

( a ) P oly(4-styrenesulfonic acid ) was used as a dopant.
( b ) T he CSCBs with core-PS and shell PPy were prepared using SDS as anchoring agent.
( c ) T h e HSPBs were measured in Figure 3.