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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2011, Article ID 467170, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2011/467170 Research Article Coaxially Aligned Polyaniline Nanofibers Doped with 3-Thiopheneacetic Acid through Interfacial Polymerization Lixia Zhang,1 Geoffrey I. N. Waterhouse,2 and Lijuan Zhang2 1 College of Chemistry and Life Science, Guangxi Teachers Education University, Nanning 530001, China 2 School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand Correspondence should be addressed to Lijuan Zhang, zhang.lijuan@ Received 17 January 2011; Revised 28 April 2011; Accepted 22 May 2011 Academic Editor: Zhi Li Xiao Copyright © 2011 Lixia Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Coaxially aligned polyaniline (PANI) nanofibers doped with 3-thiopheneacetic acid (TAA) were chemically synthesized by the interfacial polymerization of aniline in the presence of TAA, using iron (III) chloride hexahydrate (FeCl ·6H O) as the oxidant. The 3 2 morphology, crystallinity, room temperature conductivity, and coaxial alignment of the PANI-TAA nanofibers were highly dependent on the organic solvent used for the interfacial polymerization, the oxidant, and also the molar ratio of the aniline to TAA. Hexane, diethyl ether, dichloromethane, chloroform, and acetone were used as the organic solvents, and chloroform proved to be the best solvent for the formation of PANI-TAA nanofibers. The redox potential of the oxidant is the key to controlling the m