AN IN-SITU PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE POLYANILINE FIBRES FROM A POLYMER BLEND

摘要

The feasibility of using an in-situ deformation process for producing electro-conductive polyaniline (PANI) fibres embedded in the bulk of a filament-like composite and longitudinally oriented along its axial direction is evinced. Blends of a PANI complex and polystyrene-polybutadine-polystyrene (SBS) were capillary extruded into filaments. The extrudates' microstructure consisted of elongated domains of the PANI complex embedded in the SBS, displaying a considerable degree of uniformity and continuity, and preferentially oriented in the extrusion direction.