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Electrostatically Dissipative Polystyrene Nanocomposites containing Copper Nanowires
Author(s) -
Gelves Genaro A.,
Sundararaj Uttandaraman,
Haber Joel A.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
macromolecular rapid communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1521-3927
pISSN - 1022-1336
DOI - 10.1002/marc.200500490
Subject(s) - nanowire , materials science , copper , nanocomposite , aluminium , polystyrene , copper oxide , aluminium oxide , percolation (cognitive psychology) , composite material , porosity , nanotechnology , metallurgy , polymer , neuroscience , biology
Summary: A scalable synthesis of copper nanowires by alternating current electrodeposition into porous aluminium oxide was used to produce multigram quantities of 16 nm diameter by >2 µm long nanowires. Polystyrene nanocomposites were prepared by solution processing. The composites containing unpassivated nanowires were non‐uniformly dispersed and showed electrical percolation at ≈2 vol.‐% Cu loading, while the composites containing HSC 18 H 37 ‐passivated nanowires were uniformly dispersed, but remained resistive up to at least 10 vol.‐% Cu loading.Copper nanowires prepared by alternating current electrodeposition into porous aluminium oxide templates.