Magnetic behavior of polyaniline doped with oxidized ferrocenesulfonic acid

Ferrocenesulfonic acid (FSA) was oxidized by iodine (I2) and then used as dopant for polyaniline emeraldine base. The resulted polyaniline showed an electrical conductivity of 4.50 × 10−2 S/cm and a ferromagnetic interaction with a positive Weiss constant of 15 K, the magnetic behavior is attributed to the ferromagnetic coupling between ferrocenium cations in the counter-ions along the polyaniline chain.