“…They are prepared via aniline polymerization in the presence of a steric stabilizer, which produces a colloidal PANI in the form of an aqueous dispersion (Stejskal & Sapurina, 2005). Commonly, water-soluble synthetic polymers or surfactants can be used as stabilizers; nevertheless, only a few biomacromolecules, such as cellulose derivatives (Chattopadhyay, Banerjee, Chakravorty, & Mandal, 1998;Stejskal, Spirkova, et al, 1999) or gelatin (Bober et al, 2017), have been exploited for the synthesis of colloidal PANI. For materials coming into contact with cells and tissues, polysaccharides such as sodium hyaluronate and chitosan appear to be excellent candidates as stabilizers due to their good environmental, and especially, biological properties (Kasparkova et al, 2019).…”