Journal
SYNTHETIC METALS
Volume 162, Issue 17-18, Pages 1654-1664Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2012.07.020
Keywords
Polyaniline; Nanocellulose; Composites; Shape memory polyurethanes
Funding
- National Research Council of Republic Argentina (CONICET)
- Science and Technology National Promotion Agency (ANPCyT)
- National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP)
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Conducting polyaniline (PANI) and PANI coated cellulose (PANI-NC) nanofibers doped with hydrochloric acid were synthesized by a sonochemical method and re-dispersed in methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK) by ultrasonication. Composite films were prepared by mixing the dispersions with a segmented polyurethane (SMPu) solution in MIBK, followed by casting and solvent evaporation. PANI-NC fibers resulted more conductive than neat PANI ones and the same behavior was found for the resulting composite films, being the last ones in the range of semi-conductive polymers. As the concentration of nanofibers was maintained under 5 wt%, the thermal, mechanical and shape memory properties of the polyurethane matrix were not negatively affected or even slightly improved with the addition of nanofibers. In particular, the addition of any of the fibers led to an increase in the tensile modulus without decreasing the elongation at break, while the use of PANI ones resulted in an increase of the recovery capacity of the samples and the incorporation of PANI-NC fibers led to an increase in the recovery force. However, the transparency of the neat SMPu was lost, since even the less concentrated composite films resulted homogeneously green colored. On the other hand, no evidence of nanofiber percolation through the matrix was found. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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