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Facile synthesis of polyaniline-polypyrrole nanofibers for application in chemical deposition of metal nanoparticles

  • Ping Xu
  • , Xijiang Han*
  • , Chao Wang
  • , Bin Zhang
  • , Xiaohong Wang
  • , Hsing Lin Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Abstract

Polyaniline-polypyrrole (PANI-PPy) nanofibers with high aspect ratios have been synthesized by a one-step, surfactant-assisted chemical oxidative polymerization from mixtures of aniline (An) and pyrrole (Py) monomers. PANI-PPy nanofibers synthesized with an excess of either PANI or PPy show similar spectral (UV-vis and FT-IR) characteristics as the individual homopolymers, whereas nanofibers from an equimolar mixture of An and Py display unique spectral characteristics. PANI-PPy nanofibers undergo a spontaneous redox reaction with metal ions to produce metal nanoparticles with various morphologies and/or sizes. These findings may open new opportunities for synthesizing functional polymer nanofibers and metal nanoparticles with controllable sizes and/or morphologies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1392-1397
Number of pages6
JournalMacromolecular Rapid Communications
Volume29
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - 18 Aug 2008

Keywords

  • Fibers
  • Nanoparticles
  • Polyanilines
  • Polypyrroles
  • Synthesis

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