SYNTHESIS AND OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF ACID-DOPED POLYANILINE THIN FILMS

Authors

  • ON Paul-Nwokocha DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, IMO STATE UNIVERSITY, OWERRI, IMO STATE,
  • JO Ozuomba DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, IMO STATE UNIVERSITY, OWERRI, IMO STATE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4314/njt.371.1587

Keywords:

polyaniline thin film, organic compounds, chemical oxidant polymerization, synthesized polyaniline, optical properties

Abstract

Polyaniline has attracted much interest among researchers because of its reasonably good conductivity, stability, ease of preparation, affordability and redox properties compared to other organic compounds. In this work, Polyaniline (PANI) thin films were synthesized by chemical oxidative polymerization of aniline in the presence of Hydrochloric acid using Ammonium peroxydisulfate as an oxidizing agent. The synthesised PANI thin films, doped with Tetraoxosulphate VI acid (H2SO4) and Citric acid, were characterised using UV-Vis spectroscopy to investigate the variations in the optical properties. The thin films were found to be of the same thickness (0.2µm) and their absorption spectra revealed two absorption peaks at around 300nm and 650nm for the pure PANI and the  sample doped with Citric acid while that doped with H2SO4 had its peaks at 300 nm and 880nm. Doping reduced the direct band gap of the PANI from 2.75eV to 2.4eV.

 

http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/njt.v37i1.18

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2017-12-31

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Chemical, Industrial, Materials, Mechanical, Metallurgical, Petroleum & Production Engineering

How to Cite

SYNTHESIS AND OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF ACID-DOPED POLYANILINE THIN FILMS. (2017). Nigerian Journal of Technology, 37(1), 135-138. https://doi.org/10.4314/njt.371.1587