Nature｜Prof. Renhao Dong and collaborators

On February 5, 2025, a paper titled "Two dimensional polyaniline crystal with metallic out of plane conductivity" was published in the top international journal Nature. The paper reports a multi-layer stacked two-dimensional polyaniline (2DPANI) crystal, which exhibits high conductivity and out of plane metallic charge transfer properties, opening up new avenues for the research of conductive polymer materials and marking a revolutionary breakthrough in two-dimensional conductive polymer materials

Tao Zhang (Researcher of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Ningbo Institute of Materials and Engineering) is the first author, and Thomas Heine (Professor of the Dresden Institute of Technology in Germany), Renhao Dong (Associate professor of the Department of Chemistry of The University of Hong Kong and MILES PI), Rainer Hillenbrand (San Sebastian Cooperative Research Center for Nanoscience), and Academician Xinliang Feng (Professor of the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics/Dresden Institute of Technology in Germany and MILES Advisory Board Member) are the corresponding authors.

Zhang, T., Chen, S., Petkov, P.S. et al. Two-dimensional polyaniline crystal with metallic out-of-plane conductivity. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08387-9