Journal
SYNTHETIC METALS
Volume 160, Issue 17-18, Pages 1832-1837Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2010.06.021
Keywords
Polyaniline; Conductive polymers; PMMA; Polymeric foams
Funding
- NSERC Canada
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- Canada Research Chairs
- Government of Ontario: Ministry of Research and Innovation
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The conductive polymer polyaniline is blended with conventional industrial thermoplastics in order to obtain an electrically conductive polymer blend with adequate mechanical properties. Processing these polyblends into foams yields a porous conductive material that exhibits immense application potential such as dynamic separation media and low-density electrostatic discharge protection. In the current study, the morphology of a thermally processable blend consisting of an electrically conductive polyaniline-dodecylbenzene sulfonic acid complex and poly(methyl methacrylate) is explored using a two-phase batch foaming setup. The effect of blend composition and processing parameters on the resulting porous morphology is investigated. The impact of the underlying microstructure and blend composition on the frequency dependent electrical conductivity is elucidated using multiple linear regression and a model is proposed. Finally, dielectric analysis is utilized to experimentally identify the critical dispersion frequency of an unfoamed blend composition near the percolation threshold. (c) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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