Open AccessInvestigations on dislocation density and strain of polyaniline withWO3nanocomposites
Author(s) -
B. Vijaykumar,
B. Bharati,
K Priyanka,
Ramabai,
B. Manjunatha,
Basavaraja Sannakki
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/1221/1/012017
Subject(s) - materials science , polyaniline , composite material , crystallite , nanocomposite , grain boundary , grain size , dislocation , nano , morphology (biology) , polymerization , polymer , metallurgy , microstructure , biology , genetics
Polyaniline is equipped by in-situ chemical oxidative polymerization method using ammonium persulphate as an oxidizing agent. The prepared Polyaniline is doped with the nano particles of WO 3 at dissimilar weight percentage. The nano-compsites are characterized using XRD and SEM. The crystallite sizes are obtainvia Debye-Scherer relation from the XRD spectra for nano-composites of different weight percentages. The crystallite sizes of nano-particles decreased with increase in weight percentage of WO 3 with the PANI. The dislocation density due to the defects in the crystals of nano-composites is obtained. The dislocation density increased as wt % of WO 3 in PANI increased. Further, the strain produce at the grain boundary is obtained by FWHM of the XRD spectra. The strain of nano-composites at the grain boundary increased as dislocation density increased. Strain at the grain boundary is also increased as weight percent of WO 3 increased in the nano-composites of PANI. Further, the surface morphology of the nano-composites of PANI/WO 3 at different weight percentages were observed using SEM. The particles are appeared granular in shape and size. The agglomeration in the sizes of the nano-composites was observed as weight percent of WO 3 with PANI increased.