The Effect of Nanosized Layered Materials on the Structure-Property Relationship of Poly(aniline)s: An FTIR Kinetic Study

摘要

Aniline (ANI) was chemically polymerized in the presence of two different nanosized layered materials, zirconylphosphate (ZP) and molyptic acid (MA) under different experimental conditions with nitrogen purging at 45°C. The effect of nanosized layered materials on the rate of polymerization (R_p) and Fourier transform infra red-relative intensities (FTIR-RI) of benzenoid and quinonoid forms of poly(aniline) (PANI) were tested. The thermal stability and electrical conductivity values were boosted with the help of nanosized materials. High resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM) determined the size of nano material and its uniform distribution on the PANI matrix. For the sake of comparison, o-toluidine (OT) was polymerized under the same experimental conditions and its structure-property relationship in the presence of nano materials were also tested and critically compared with PANI systems.