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The scaffold could offer a potential new treatment for sports injuries and other cartilage damage.<br />

Three dimensional (3D) mo<strong>de</strong>lling and analysis of the reconstruction of the specimens is<br />

required to facilitate the study of the porous subjects and also to control and produce the<br />

<strong>de</strong>sirable structures.<br />

1.2 Objectives<br />

Devices ma<strong>de</strong> from semiconductor materials such as radios and computers are the foundation of<br />

mo<strong>de</strong>rn electronics. Semiconductor <strong>de</strong>vices inclu<strong>de</strong> the various types of transistors, solar cells,<br />

and many kinds of dio<strong>de</strong>s, which work with different conductivity values in a range from 10 -8 to<br />

10 -2 S Cm -1 . Controlling the conductivity and resistivity of materials for various applications is a<br />

challenging problem.<br />

Polyaniline (PANI) is popular for its ease of preparation, good level of electrical conductivity,<br />

and environmental stability. Green protonated emeraldine has a conductivity on a semiconductor<br />

level in the or<strong>de</strong>r of 10 0 S cm –1 . Although the conducting form of PANI has a good chemical<br />

stability combined with relatively high levels of electrical conductivity, PANI suffers from the<br />

common disadvantage of conducting polymers, which is poor processibility. For this reason,<br />

PANI is used as a filler in the preparation of conducting composites, and for the surface<br />

modification of microparticles, pow<strong>de</strong>rs, fibers, textiles, membranes, and porous substrates,<br />

endowing them with new electrical, chemical, and surface properties. A proposed way to cope<br />

with the poor processibility of conducting polymers is the preparation of PANI colloids, but this<br />

technique is limited to special applications. Melt-processing of PANI was suggested by several<br />

groups(Haba, Segal, Narkis, Titelman, & Siegmann, 2000; Narkis et al., 2000a; Segal, Haba,<br />

Narkis, & Siegmann, 2001; Shacklette, Han, & Luly, 1993) to combine the <strong>de</strong>sired properties of<br />

conventional polymers and PANI. They were not successful in controlling the morphology of the<br />

blend, and consequently were unable to reach a percolation threshold lower than 15%. Also, in<br />

those cases the percolation threshold area is narrow and a resistive blend is quickly converted to<br />

a conductive blend. Therefore, the conductivity value of the material is not controllable in the<br />

range of semi-conductivity.<br />

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