Polyaniline nanosheets

The hydrothermal synthesis of polyaniline-V205 nanocomposites with nanosheet morphology has been reported by Zhang and coworkers [34]. Reacting V2O5 powder with aniline, in the presence of water and hydrochloric acid, in an autoclave at 120°C for 24 hours resulted in the formation of polyaniline-V2O5 intercalated... 

By using an exfoliation and flocculation technique, Prasad et al. were able to prepare a polyaniline/NbWOe hybrid material [74]. Dispersed nanosheets of HNbWOe were obtained by treating HNbWOe with tetrabutyl ammonium hydroxide. The suspension of the exfoliated layers was then added to an alcoholic solution of aniline, followed by addition of a few drops of 1M HCl, and overnight sonication in order to induce flocculation of the aniline-NbWOe nanocomposite. The nanocomposite was isolated by centrifugation, and dried. Treatment of the nanocomposite with O2 at 130 °C for several weeks resulted in the formation of intercalated PANI. 

S. Pang, G. Li, and Z. Zhang, Synthesis of polyaniline-vanadium oxide nanocomposite nanosheets, Macromol. Rapid Commun., 26, 1262-1265 (2005). 

Du, Y., Shen, S.Z., Yang, W, Donekon, R., Cai, K., Casey, P.S., 2012. Simultaneous increase in conductivity and Seebeck coefficient in a polyaniline/graphene nanosheets thermoelectric nanocomposite. Synth. Met. 161,2688-2692. 

Additional novel particles, including nylon 66, alumina, " gold, garnet, diamond, graphite, polyaniline, and boron nitride nanosheets, and nanoparticles of low molecular weight borate esters, have been introduced to increase ionic conductivities. Boron-doped PDMS has been used as scintillators for thermal neutron detection. Nanowires of ZnO have been inserted into PDMS to give tunable, flexible antireflection layers, and ZnO has also been introduced into such polymers as quantum dots. Similarly, color-tunable luminescent... 

Yan, J. et al. 2010. Preparation of a graphene nanosheet/polyaniline composite with high sp>ecific capacitance. Carbon, 48,487—493. 

Yan J, Wei T, Ean Z, Qian W, Zhang M, Shen X, Wei E (2010) Preparation of graphene nanosheet/carbon nanotube/polyaniline composite as electrode material for super capacitors. J Power Sources 195 3041... 

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