Chaudhuri, Debangshu and Menezes, Prashanth W and Sarma, DD (2003) Remarkable thermal stability of $BF_3$-doped polyaniline. In: Applied Physics Letters, 83 (12). pp. 2348-2350.
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Abstract
We show that the recently synthesized $BF_3$-doped polyaniline (PANI) exhibits remarkable stability against thermal aging. Unlike the protonated PANI, which shows rapid degradation of the conductivity on heating in air, $BF_3$-doped PANI shows more than an order of magnitude improvement in conductivity. We employ x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and x-ray diffraction to understand this unexpected phenomenon.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publication: | Applied Physics Letters |
Publisher: | American Institute of Physics |
Additional Information: | Copyright for this article belongs to American Institute of Physics. |
Department/Centre: | Division of Chemical Sciences > Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit |
Date Deposited: | 23 Mar 2005 |
Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2010 04:18 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/2966 |
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