XPS investigation of electrosynthesized conducting polymer nanostructures of application in sensors. Preliminary results

Abstract

One of the most important CPs is polypyrrole (PPy) because of its high stability, electronic conductivity, ion exchange capacity and biocompatibility. To improve the performance or extend the functions of the organic devices, CPs usually have to be nanostructured, in fact they are synthesized in the form of micro/nanotubes In this work electrosynthesized polypyrrole nanostructures prepared by a reported template-free method is investigated, in particular a preliminary analysis of high-resolution spectra, both for nanostructured sample and bulk sample has been performed.