Spectroscopic characterization of a new type of conducting polymer-clay nanocomposite
Spectroscopic characterization of a new type of conducting polymer-clay nanocomposite
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DOI:
10.1021/ma025571l
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发表时间:
2002-09-24
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5.5
通讯作者:
Temperini, MLA
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作者:
do Nascimento, GM;Constantino, VRL;Temperini, MLA
Introduction. The conductivity of a conducting polymer depends strongly on the arrangement of its chains. 1, 2 One way to improve the bulk properties of a polymer is to confine it in nanoscale environments. Nanocomposites are multiphase materials with two or more different compounds organized in the nanometer regime and can show electronic, mechanical, magnetic, and optical properties that are not present in the individual phases, but the basic reason for this synergism is not yet completely understood. 3, 4 Nanocomposites formed with inorganic host structures and polyaniline have been one of the most studied systems. 5, 6 In such systems, the polymeric chains are reasonably isolated from one another by the inorganic structure, providing an unique opportunity to explore spectroscopic properties of single chains intercalated in a rigid matrix. 7 FTIR, EPR, and other techniques have been largely used to characterize these complex systems. 5r7 Among the inorganic hosts employed to confine conducting polymers, clays are frequently used. 5, 6, 8 There are several works in the literature using different synthetic strategies to prepare polyaniline between the layers of montmorillonite, a natural clay, 9r13 and according to the authors, the emeraldine salt form of polyaniline (ESr PANI) is then formed. Up to now, Raman spectroscopy has been little explored to investigate the nature of these types of hybrid materials. In this work, we present for the first time the resonance Raman (RR) characterization of a polymerrclay nanocomposite formed by the aniline polymerization in the presence of smectite clay Swy2 montmorillonite (MMT) using two different synthetic routes reported in the literature. 9, 11 One of these routes leads to ESrPANI while the other leads to a new type of conducting polymerrclay nanocomposite.