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CHEMICAL PAPERS
Volume 63, Issue 1, Pages 77-83Publisher
VERSITA
DOI: 10.2478/s11696-008-0086-z
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conducting polymer; conductivity; polyaniline; silver; nanotube
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- Czech Grant Agency [203/08/0686]
- Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic [MSM 002160834]
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Polyaniline (PANI) nanotubes were prepared by oxidation of aniline in 0.4 M acetic acid. They were subsequently used as a reductant of silver nitrate in 1 M nitric acid, water or 1 M ammonium hydroxide at various molar ratios of silver nitrate to PANI. The resulting PANI-silver composites contained silver nanoparticles of 40-60 nm size along with macroscopic silver flakes. Under these experimental conditions, silver was always produced outside the PANI nanotubes. Changes in the molecular structure of PANI were analyzed by FTIR spectroscopy. Silver content in the composites was determined as a residue by thermogravimetric analysis, and confirmed by density measurements. The highest conductivity of a composite, 68.5 S cm(-1), was obtained at the nitrate to PANI molar ratio of 0.67 in water. Also, the best reaction yield was obtained in water. Reductions performed in an acidic medium gave products with conductivity of 10(-4)-10(-2) S cm(-1), whereas the reaction in alkaline solution yielded non-conducting products. (C) 2008 Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences
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