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TiO2/PANI nanocomposite loaded in PVA for anticorrosive applications Cover

TiO2/PANI nanocomposite loaded in PVA for anticorrosive applications

Open Access
|Nov 2016

Abstract

We report the morphological and electrical study of a composite of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and nanotitanium dioxide (TiO2-50 nm) in conducting polymer polyaniline (PANI). The composite was synthesized using in-situ polymerization technique. The composite was characterized in terms of morphology and electrical properties using scanning electron microscopy and DC electrical conductivity (𝜎dc). We observed that the DC electrical conductivity of the composite film increased with increasing the loading of nanocomposite material from 20 % to 40 % into PVA stabilizer. The DC conductivity results showed that the molecular chain contribution of the nanocomposite material (nano-TiO2+ PANI) was the prominent carrier in the composite film made of the nanocomposite and PVA stabilizer.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/msp-2016-0096 | Journal eISSN: 2083-134X | Journal ISSN: 2083-1331
Language: English
Page range: 721 - 725
Submitted on: Dec 15, 2015
Accepted on: Aug 6, 2016
Published on: Nov 17, 2016
Published by: Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2016 Rajeev Arora, Anupam Srivastav, Utam Kumar Mandal, Pankaj Sharma, published by Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
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