“…To date, polyaniline has been intercalated into a variety of insulating host materials such as silicates, 2,3 uranium micas, 4 FeOCl, 5 hectorite, 6 zirconium phosphates, 7,8 double hydroxides, 9 layered semiconducting hosts such as V 2 O 5 10 and MoS 2 , 11 as well as network silicates such as zeolites, 12 and the recently discovered ordered mesoporous silicate MCM-41. 13 With the possible exception of MoS 2 and MCM-41, 14 these host materials are not available as large single crystals or tubules and therefore do not allow for macroscopic spatial alignment, although microscopic alignment within a crystallite has certainly been realised.…”