Supplementary material (ESI) for Chemical Communications This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2003 A water-soluble and self-doped conducting polyaniline graft copolymer Woo Jin Bae,a Keon Hyeong Kim,a Yun Heum Park*b and Won Ho Jo*a a Hyperstructured Organic Materials Research Center and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea. Fax: 82-2-885-1748; Tel: 82-2880-7192; E-mail: whjpoly@plaza.snu.ac.kr b School of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea. Fax: 82-31-290-7330; Tel: 82-31-290-7312; E-mail: yhpark@skku.edu Electronic supplementary information Schematic diagram (a) of doped and de-doped state of PSSA-g-PANI and PSSA/PANI blend, and structural change (b)of PSSA-g-PANI during de-doping process Changes in intrinsic viscosity of PSSA-g-PANI during doping and de-doping 1 Supplementary material (ESI) for Chemical Communications This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2003 XPS spectra of (a) doped PSSA-g-PANI and (b) de-doped PSSA-g-PANI O S O O S O O S O OH OH NH O S O O S O O O OH H+ N H+ N O S O O S O O S O O S O O S O OH NH OH OH OH NH O S O OH O S O OH O S O O S O OH OH OH NH N N Structure Binding energy quinoid imine (=N- structure) benzenoid amine (-NH- structure) Positively charged nitrogen (-N+structure) 395.8 eV 399.4 eV NH NH 402.8 eV It is noted that the oxidation level of 0.5 evaluated from FT-IR experiment is coincident with the value of 0.43 determined quantitatively by XPS analysis. The doping level was estimated ca. 35 mol%. (N 1s core-level spectra) 2 Supplementary material (ESI) for Chemical Communications This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2003 FTIR spectra of (a) P(SSNa-co-BOC-AMS), (b) P(SSA-co-AMS) and (c) PSSA-g-PANI, where Q, B and op denote the quinoid ring, benzenoid ring and out-of-plane, respectively (a) Transmission (b) C=O N-H C-H NH3+ N-H (c) C-H N-H C-N N-H 3500 3000 (Q, B) 2500 2000 (OP) C=N 1500 1000 500 Wave number (cm-1) GPC profile of PSSA-g-PANI Mn = 34 000 PDI = 1.54 20 25 30 35 Elution time (min) Column: UltrahydrogelTM 500, 7.8 300 mm Eluent: water/DMF(v/v=9.5/0.5)+0.5 M NaOH Flow rate: 0.6 ml/min 3 (OP) 40 45