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Polymers 2010, 2, 786-798; doi:10.3390/polym2040786 OPEN ACCESS polymers ISSN 2073-4360 /journal/polymers Article New Insight into Organic Metal Polyaniline Morphology and Structure Bernhard Wessling Ormecon GmbH (a business of Enthone, Inc.), Ferdinand-Harten-Str. 7, D-22949 Ammersbek, Germany; E-Mail: bwessling@; Tel.: +49-40-604106-25; Fax: +49-40-604106-51 Received: 11 October 2010; in revised form: 7 December 2010 / Accepted: 16 December 2010 / Published: 17 December 2010 Abstract: Polyaniline is known to be a true metal, though a nanometal. Previous experimental and theoretical evidence is reviewed. Two important structural features are presented, which have not publicly been discussed so far : (a) The formation of complexes between polyaniline and metals (Cu, Fe, Zn, In, etc.) which are crucial for most practical applications of the organic metal, polyaniline; and (b) a model for the polyaniline chain structure within the smallest morphological unit, the roughly 10 nm primary particle. Keywords: polyaniline; organic metal; nanometal; metal complex; morphology; structure 1. Introduction Conductive polymers are principally insoluble and infusible, which has been shown by numerous experimental approaches and by thermodynamical considerations [1]. A ―solution‖ of a conductive polymer would require a single chain having no interaction with a neighbor chain but only interactions with the solvent, i.e., the chain would be completely surrounded by solvent molecules. Such systems do not a