“…With the intensive studies to conducting polymers and the potential application of nano-structures in practice, nano-sized conducting polymers fibrils have been prepared both chemically or electrochemically using "hard" or "soft" templates, such as tracketched polycarbonate (Martin, 1996;Parthasarathy and Martin, 1994), zeolite channels (Wu and Bein, 1994), anodized alumina (Wang et al, 2001), surfactants (Michaelson and McEvoy, 1994), micelles (Wei et al, 2002), liquid crystals (Huang et al, 2002), thiolated cyclodextrins (Park et al, 2001), and template-free procedures (Langer et al, 2001). Recently, large arrays of uniform and oriented PAN nano-wires have been synthesized on Pt surface without using a supporting template (Liang et al, 2002); and a facile chemical route to prepare PAN nano-fibres via aqueous/organic interfacial polymerization in the presence of camphorsulfonic acid (CSA) has been reported (Huang et al, 2003).…”