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Rubner, 1995), and charge <strong>de</strong>nsity(Schoeler, Kumaraswamy, & Caruso, 2002). Repetitive<br />

<strong>de</strong>position steps provi<strong>de</strong> a precise control over the total thickness of the layers in the range from<br />

a few angstroms up to a few micrometers. The thickness increment after each <strong>de</strong>position is<br />

referred to as a growth rate which is dictated by polyelectrolyte geometry, surface charges, and<br />

solution parameters(Decher, 1997). Some of the most wi<strong>de</strong>ly used polyelectrolytes are sodium<br />

poly(styrene sulfonate), poly(diallyldimethyl-ammonium) chlori<strong>de</strong>, poly(ethyleneimine),<br />

poly(allylamine), poly(vinyl sulfate), and poly(acrylic acid). Recent advances in LBL techniques,<br />

in the non-conductive area, have <strong>de</strong>monstrated the possibility of templating multilayers onto 3D<br />

scale substrates. Caruso et al. (Caruso, Caruso, & Mohwald, 1998) <strong>de</strong>posited LBL films onto a<br />

colloidal core. Subsequent removal of the core resulted in a thin-film shell. Roy et al. (Roy, et<br />

al., 2006) <strong>de</strong>posited LBL films onto a fully interconnected porous PLLA surface and the<br />

subsequent removal of PLLA resulted in a 3D object comprised of a vast nanosheath network of,<br />

high surface area and the highest void volume ever reported for a polymeric substrate.<br />

Rubner et al, (Cheung, et al., 1997; Fou & Rubner, 2002) were the first to apply the LbL<br />

technique in the field of electronically conductive polymers to construct PSS/PANI bilayers onto<br />

thin films in or<strong>de</strong>r to prepare a conductive <strong>de</strong>vice. Important advances have been ma<strong>de</strong> in this<br />

area by employing various conjugated polymers such as polyaniline and polypyrrole(Kim et al.,<br />

2002; Liang, Cabarcos, Allara, & Wang, 2004; Ram, Salerno, Adami, Faraci, & Nicolini, 1999).<br />

Ferreira et al.(Ferreira, et al., 1994) found that the solubility of PANI in an organic media such as<br />

dimethylacetami<strong>de</strong>(DMA) is much higher than that in water. A solution of doped polyaniline<br />

generally makes it more difficult to achieve the spontaneous adsorption of polyaniline chains<br />

onto a variety hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces(Cheung, et al., 1997). The presence of salt<br />

in the solutions has a subtle effect. Generally, it screens the monomer-monomer repulsive<br />

interactions, leading to enhancement of adsorption(Dautzenberg et al., 1994). Salt can play<br />

different roles in polyelectrolyte multilayer(PEM) formation and function, such as controlling the<br />

thickness increment of polyelectrolytes, the permeability(Harris & Bruening, 2000), and the<br />

stability(Dubas & Schlenoff, 2001b) of the multilayer. Most of the work published so far has<br />

revealed an increase in conductivity with an increase of the number of adsorbed PSS/PANI<br />

bilayers by measurement of electrical conductivity of LbL films <strong>de</strong>posited on a flat<br />

surface(Braga, et al., 2008; Paloheimo, et al., 1995). In most cases conductivity measured by<br />

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