Journal
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING B-ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL SOLID-STATE MATERIALS
Volume 177, Issue 20, Pages 1741-1747Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.mseb.2012.09.001
Keywords
Nanoparticles; Polymer-matrix composites; Electrical conductivity; Dielectric permittivity
Funding
- DST Government of India
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Biosynthesized metal (Ag) nanoparticles have been used to prepare high dielectric polymer composite film of technological importance. Different amounts of the tea leaf extract (E) (mother leaker prepared by soaking 2g tea leaf in 100 ml boiled water for 3 min) were used to synthesize silver nanoparticles from 10(-3) M AgNO3 solution. Such a resultant solution containing Ag nanoparticles was mixed with 20 ml PVA solution (5 g PVA in 100 ml water) was used to make anhydrous Ag/PVA composite film where spherical silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) of average diameter 10 nm are well dispersed in the composite. The Ag particle size in the composite was found to enhance with the increase of E content in PVA. XRD, SEM, TEM, FT-IR, UV-vis. TGA and DSC studies are made to characterize the nanoparticles. Detailed frequency and E concentration dependent electrical and dielectric properties of the nanocomposites have been made showing low loss (similar to 0.14) and high dielectric property of these films. Maximum value of dielectric permittivity (similar to 900 which is almost 170 times higher than that of pure PVA similar to 5.2) have been observed for 15 ml E-AgNPs/PVA nanocomposite film at 1 kHz and room temperature. Present study establishes the importance of the biosynthesized metal nanoparticles for industrial applications as in capacitors. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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