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POLYMER ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE
Volume 62, Issue 10, Pages 3418-3432Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pen.26114
Keywords
DC conductivity modeling; dielectric parameters; nanocomposites; optical properties; poly(diphenylamine); temperature dependent conductivity; thermal stability; zinc oxide
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Polymer nanocomposites with good properties were synthesized by incorporating zinc oxide nanoparticles into a poly(diphenylamine) matrix. The addition of nanoparticles improved the optical, crystalline, morphological, thermal, dielectric, and electrical properties of the nanocomposites.
Polymer nanocomposites with good optical, crystalline, morphological, thermal, dielectric, and electrical properties were synthesized using poly(diphenylamine) (PDPA) and zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles. The redshift in the UV absorption edges of composites indicates that ZnO nanoparticles have been successfully incorporated into the PDPA matrix. The lowest optical bandgap energy and maximum refractive indices were observed in 7 wt% loadings. The narrowing of the avearge chain spacing detected by X-ray diffraction (XRD) proved that ZnO had an impact on the structure of PDPA. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images show homogeneous dispersion of spherically shaped ZnO nanoparticles at lower filler loadings. The glass transition temperature of the nanocomposites was greatly enhanced with the addition of nanoparticles analyzed by differential scanning calorimetry. The electrical and dielectric properties improved with temperature and nanoparticle loadings up to 7 wt%. The analysis of impedance spectra and the decreasing radius of semi-circular arcs in the Nyquist plot manifests the existence of temperature-dependent conductivity and relaxation phenomenon. The experimental values of DC conductivities were correlated with different theoretical conductivity models and the McCullough model was found to be the most promising one to explain the increased DC conductivity of the PDPA/ZnO nanocomposites.
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