Journal
REACTIVE & FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS
Volume 68, Issue 9, Pages 1355-1361Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2008.06.012
Keywords
acids; conductivity; conducting polymer; contact angles; degree of protonation; density; polyaniline; polyaniline base; protonation; volume change
Funding
- Czech Grant Republic [202/06/0419, 203/08/0686]
- Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic [MSM 0021620834]
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Polyaniline (PANI) is one of the most studied conducting polymers. Its properties can be modified by controlling the way of protonation. Polyaniline base was immersed in aqueous solutions of 42 inorganic or organic acids in order to find out, which is able to constitute a salt with the PANI base and what are the properties of products. The conductivity of the reprotonated PANI bases is determined especially by the pH of acid solutions. The highest conductivity, 1.22 S cm(-1), was found after reprotonation of PANI base with 50% tetrafluoroboric acid. The reaction with most strong inorganic acids yielded samples with a conductivity of 10(-1) S cm(-1). Sulfonic acids gave products having conductivity of the order of 10(-2) - 10(-1) S cm(-1). Carboxylic acids were less efficient in protonation, and their ability to produce a conducting polymer depended on increasing the acid concentration. Acids containing an acidic hydroxyl group, like picric acid, also protonated PANI to a good level of conductivity. The lowest conductivity, 1.8 x 10-(10) S cm(-1), was observed in the absence of any acid. The density of reprotonated PANI varied between 1.19 and 2.06 g cm(-3), the contact angle between 29 degrees and 102 degrees, and volume change between -14% and +33%, depending of the acid used. The reprotonation of PANI base with various acids offers the opportunity to prepare materials with great variability and versatility in properties. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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