  The chemical structure of cobalt--polypyrrole -- produced by a dual plasma
process -- is analysed by means of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), near
edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (NEXAFS), X-ray diffraction (XRD),
energy-dispersive X-Ray spectroscopy (EDX) and extended x-ray absorption
spectroscopy (EXAFS).It is shown that only nanoparticles of a size of 3\,nm
with the low temperature crystal structure of cobalt are present within the
compound. Besides that, cobalt--nitrogen and carbon--oxygen structures are
observed. Furthermore, more and more cobalt--nitrogen structures are produced
when increasing the magnetron power. Linking the information on the chemical
structure to the results about the catalytic activity of the films -- which are
presented in part I of this contribution -- it is concluded that the
cobalt--nitrogen structures are the probable catalytically active sites. The
cobalt--nitrogen bond length is calculated as 2.09\,\AA\ and the
carbon--nitrogen bond length as 1.38\,\AA.
