Scientific and commercial breakthrough for organic metals

The organic metal polyaniline has been thoroughly investigated over the last years, an overview will be given with focus on: metallic properties (quantum size effect in mesoscopic metals, and strategies for increasing metallic conductivity) metallic properties of polyaniline blends ennobling and passivation mechanism (reaction scheme) of PAni on conventional metal surfaces The first regular and significant commercial applications have been realized or are close to reality. The most important will be discussed, like: corrosion protection as a first real application manufacturing of printed circuit boards (here, a new technology will be presented, which is a new surface preparation technique) transparent coatings - their physical and chemical background, their actual and potential new applications.