Remarkable thermal stability of $BF_3$-doped polyaniline

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
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.ernet.in/id/eprint/2966

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