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JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 133, Issue 39, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/app.43989
Keywords
catalysts; composites; conducting polymers
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- University Grant Commission
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In this study, we report first time the electrical properties and photocatalytic activity of HCl doped polyaniline (Pani) and Pani/boron nitride (Pani/BN) nanocomposite prepared by in situ polymerization of aniline using potassium persulfate (K2S2O8) in the presence of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). The prepared Pani and Pani/BN nanocomposite were characterized by Fourier transform infrared, X-ray diffraction, Thermogravimetric analysis, Scanning electron microscope, and Transmission electron microscope. The stability of the Pani/BN nanocomposite in comparison of Pani in terms of the DC electrical conductivity retention was investigated under isothermal and cyclic aging conditions. The Pani/BN nanocomposite in terms of DC electrical conductivity was observed to be comparatively more thermally stable than Pani. The degradation of Methylene blue (MB) and Rhodamine B (RhB) under UV-light irradiation were 50 and 56.4%, respectively, over Pani and 65.7 and 71.6%, respectively, over Pani/BN. The results indicated that the extent of degradation of MB and RhB was greater over nanocomposite material than Pani, which may result due to high electron-hole pairs charge separation under UV light. (c) 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2016, 133, 43989.
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