M V N Ambika prasad
Gulbarga University, India
Title: Studies of conducting polymers nanocomposites and its applications
Biography
Biography: M V N Ambika prasad
Abstract
The Polyaniline (PANI) has emerged as one of the most promising conducting polymers, because of its wide spread applications and due to the combination of unique properties like simple preparation and doping procedure, good environmental stability, relatively high conductivity and low cost. The inorganic–organic composites containing polymer as the organic base and Gallium oxide, Vanadium Pentoxide and Indium oxide as inorganic part have been used for studying its gas sensing. These composites have been synthesized by insitu deposition technique by placing fine grade Ga2O3, In2O3 and V2O5 in polymerization mixture of aniline. The results are well supported by FTIR spectra, SEM, XRD and Conductivity measurements. High temperature, conductivity measurements show thermal activated behavior. It is observed that electrical resistance increases with an increase in the temperature. In case of PANI-V2O5,PANI-In2O3 and PANI-Ga2O3 composites both the PANI sensing mechanism of swelling and sensing mechanism of surface charge are responsible for variation of resistance within the sensing material. Therefore, it is observed that PANI-V2O5,PANI-In2O3 and PANI-Ga2O3 composites to be a competent sensing material for LPG and this may be due to formation of surface charge and presence of capillary pores. Similar behavior for the Polymer / Nano metal oxide composites such has Polyaniline-Tungsten oxide, Polyaniline-Cobalt oxide and Polyaniline- Cerium oxide have been observed for its humidity and Gas sensing. Similarly,conducting polymers have found to have applications in Biology in Bio sensors,anti bacterial action, pigeon pea plant growth, microwave absorbers etc.