• Conductive Polymer Composites
  • Pierini, Filippo <1981>

Subject

  • CHIM/03 Chimica generale e inorganica

Description

  • In recent years, nanotechnologies have led to the production of materials with new and sometimes unexpected qualities through the manipulation of nanoscale components. This research aimed primarily to the study of the correlation between hierarchical structures of hybrid organic-inorganic materials such as conductive polymer composites (CPCs). Using a bottom-up methodology, we could synthesize a wide range of inorganic nanometric materials with a high degree of homogeneity and purity, such as thiol capped metal nanoparticles, stoichiometric geomimetic chrysotile nanotubes and metal dioxide nanoparticles. It was also possible to produce inorganic systems formed from the interaction between the synthesized materials. These synthesized materials and others like multiwalled carbon nanotubes and grapheme oxide were used to produce conductive polymer composites. Electrospinning causes polymer fibers to become elongated using an electric field. This technique was used to produce fibers with a nanometric diameter of a polymer blend based on two different intrinsically conducting polymers polymers (ICPs): polyaniline (PANI) and poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT). Using different materials as second phase in the initial electrospun polymer fibers caused significant changes to the material hierarchical structure, leading to the creation of CPCs with modified electrical properties. Further study of the properties of these new materials resulted in a better understanding of the electrical conductivity mechanisms in these electrospun materials.

Date

  • 2013-04-22

Type

  • Doctoral Thesis
  • PeerReviewed

Format

  • application/pdf

Identifier

urn:nbn:it:unibo-10419

Pierini, Filippo (2013) Conductive Polymer Composites, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Scienze chimiche , 25 Ciclo. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/5409.

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