“…The conductive mechanism of doped PANI differs from metal and semiconductor, in which the carriers are composed of "delocalization" π electrons and solitons, polarons or bipolarons formed by doping (Li and Zhao, 2000), which has been described by PEACE Model (Nechtschein et al, 1987;Wang and Wang, 1990), Granular Metal Island Model (Javadi et al, 1989;Lundberg and Salaneck, 1987;Nechtschein et al, 1989) and Monopole and Bipolar Sub-transformation Model (Wang et al, 1991). Meanwhile, PANI has activity surface that exceeds geometric surface and can play a role in selective catalysis to some certain surfaces when used as the electrode materials, for example, the electrocatalytic oxidation of ascorbic acid at polyaniline film modified glassy carbon electrodes (Dong and Song, 1992), the electrocatalysis of polyaniline film on Fe [II] and Sb [II], the synergistic effects of electrocatalytic oxidation of polyaniline on small organic molecules (DuIć and Griglć, 2001;Mikhaylova et al, 2001;Rajendraprasad and Munichandraiah, 2002) and the same electrocatalytic activity for Pb/PANI and Pt/PANI in acid solutions (Cheraghia et al, 2009). Therefore, the co-deposition of WC and PANI particles as conductive matrix and electrocatalytic activity substance and their dispersion distributions in the composite inert anodes, obviously improve the electrocatalytic activity and decrease the overpotential of oxygen evolution for Al/Pb-PANI-WC composite inert anodes in a synthetic zinc electrowinning electrolyte of 50 g·L − 1 Zn 2+ and 150 g·L − 1 H 2 SO 4 at 35°C.…”