SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CONDUCTING POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES

Nitin Sugur, Chandrashekhar Bendigeri

Abstract: Polymers have always been considered as insulators of electricity. No one would have believed 30 years ago that polymers could conduct as good as metals. Electrically conducting polymers combine the electrical properties of metals with the advantages of polymers such as light weight, greater workability, resistance to corrosion and chemical attack and the lower cost and have infiltrated our day to day life with a wide range of products, extending from most common consumer goods to highly specialized applications in space, aeronautics, electronics and nonlinear optics. The main aim of this project is to synthesize a polymer nanocomposite which has good mechanical strength as well as good electrical properties and to study the properties of the specimen with change in percentage of salt and nano-powder. Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone a water soluble polymer will be used as a base polymer material and potassium or ammonium iodide will be used as doping agent. Alumina, aluminum nitride & nickel oxide (<50nm) nano-powder will be used to increase mechanical strength and dielectric properties of the specimen.

Keywords: Synthesis, Polymer Nanocomposite, Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone, Potassium Iodide, Alumina

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0510026