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**7. Easy preparation of reduced GO‐based conducting polymer composite** 

**Figure 16.** Dispersibility of ungrafted GO, GO-*g*‐polyNVC, GO‐*g*‐polyIBVE, GO‐*g*-poly(SO-*alt*-PAn) in THF at room

Recently, we have reported that a highly electrically conducting graphene (reduced GO, rGO) based polymer composite was successfully prepared via organogels using an organically dispersible electrically conductive polyaniline (polyANI) and a low molecular‐weight organogelator consisting of cholesterol derivatives: organogelator used was complex salt of

The plain gel was prepared by heat treatment of a mixture of toluene and the organogelator. PolyANI/rGO organogel was successfully obtained by the addition of polyANI and rGO to

cholesterol hydrogen succinate with 1, 10-diaminodecane [33].

the plain gel and mixing them, as shown in **Figure 17**.

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**Figure 17.** Easy preparation of polyANI/rGO organogel.

**via organogel**

temperature.

Norio Tsubokawa<sup>1</sup> \*, Takeshi Yamauchi1 , Kazuhiro Fujiki2 and Shingo Tamesue1

\*Address all correspondence to: ntsuboka@eng.niigata-u.ac.jp

1 Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

2 Niigata Institute of Technology, Kashiwazaki, Niigata, Japan

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