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We report the synthesis of high soluble poly(aniline-coo -hydroxyaniline) copolymers with varying the amount of ohydroxyaniline (20, 40, 60, and 80 %) and referred as PA-coo -HA20, PA-coo -HA40, PA-coo -HA60, and PA-coo -HA80 respectively. The chemical and structural composition of the polymers and copolymers were determined by XPS, UV-Vis, and FE-SEM analysis. Electrochemical studies of the as-prepared polymers showed two single-electron oxidations and two singleelectron reductions reversibly at various scan rates ranging from 20 to 50 mV and results reveals that the current density of the copolymer was lesser than the conventional polyaniline (PA). This is due to increasing the hydroxyl (-OH) branching on the polymer backbone in the polymer chain. The current density decreases from PA-coo -HA20 to PA-coo -HA80 by increasing the weight percentage of o-hydroxyaniline in the polymeric backbone.

New class of conducting polyurethanes (CPUs) containing oligoanilines, namely tetraaniline (TAni) or trianiline (TriAni), in the backbone have been synthesized and characterized by formal spectral techniques. The unique properties of these CPUs, viz., electronic conductivity and electrochemical activity arising from the presence of oligoaniline units have been evaluated. The basic polyurethane backbone is derived from toluene diisocyanate, isophorone diisocyanate or hexamethylene diisocyanate, and polypropylene glycols of molecular weight 425 and 2000. In the first category of polyurethanes, the prepolymers obtained from the above reactants were chain terminated by TAni in emeraldine base oxidation state. The conductivity of these CPUs films ranged from 1.2 3 10 25 to 1.77 3 10 23 S cm 21 . These polymers showed lower conductivity due to the presence of nonconjugated polyurethane segments. These CPUs exhibited slightly different electrochemical activity than that of TAni. The second category of CPUs is obtained from prepolymers by chain extension with TriAni. The conductivity of these polymers is similar to the TAni analogues but are electrochemically inactive. The anticorrosion properties of two of these polymers have also been evaluated in this study. V C 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J.Appl. Polym. Sci. 2014, 131, 40794.

This study describes the fabrication and characterization of castor oil‐based waterborne polyurethane/polyaniline (COWPU/PAni) conducting polymer blend films. The COWPU synthesized from isophorone diisocyanate was reacted with castor oil to form prepolymers, which were chain extended by reacting it with N‐methyldiethanolamine. Quaternization and self‐emulsification including deionized water followed in COWPU dispersions. Also, COWPU/PAni hybrid dispersions were synthesized with 2, 4, and 6 wt% of PAni–dodecyl benzene sulfonic acid to make different conductive composites. The outcome of COWPU/PAni was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectrometer, differential scanning calorimeter, thermogravimetric analysis, dynamic mechanical and thermal analyzer, and scanning electron microscopy analysis. According to Fourier transform infrared spectrometer analysis, hydrogen bonding appears between –NH of PAni and CO of COWPU. Meanwhile, incorporating PAni can improve the thermal stability of COWPU. The resulting COWPU/PAni conducting blend films can be used as antistatic and anticorrosive coating materials. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.