There are many polyvinyl monomers & there is polyaniline (called PANI also) but a vinyl monomer will not be compatible with aniline to undergo copolymeization together under the same set of conditions. Assume that a vinyl monomer is mixed with aniline and both are to polymerize by chain-reaction initiation, the vinyl monomer will get involved in polymerization but aniline will not respond & engage in chain growth. Conversely, if conditions used in making PANI are applied on both compounds, aniline will respond positively and polymerize but the vinyl monomer is not expected to get involved in chain growth.

Thanks Nizar Matar . I am planning to do electropolymerization to initiate the polymerization. Both can polymerize with the same electropolymerization condition. My question is whether these two polymers cross-link?

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If both of the 2 monomers (A & B) have adequate reactivity ratios, a condition for successful copolymerization, then we can expect a chain which has significant segments built up by both of the comonomers. The final structure of the resulting copolymer cannot be envisaged before the reaction is done since there are possibilities for the repeating units to be arranged as blocks ~~~AAAA~~~BBBB~~~ or alternate ~~~ABABABAB~~~ or random ~~~ABBBAABAAAA~~~ . The type of arrangement may either enhance crosslinking or suppress crosslinking.

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