Niranjana M; Sharanappa Chapi; Yesappa L; Archana K; Raghu S; Devendrappa H
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Polyaniline (PANI) composites doped with Vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) of different weight percentage using dodecylbenzene sulfonic acid (DBSA) as surfactant was prepared by in-situ chemical oxidation reaction method. Here ammonium persulphate was used as an oxidizing agent. The formation of composite (PANI/DBSA/V2O5) ...
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Polyaniline (PANI) composites doped with Vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) of different weight percentage using dodecylbenzene sulfonic acid (DBSA) as surfactant was prepared by in-situ chemical oxidation reaction method. Here ammonium persulphate was used as an oxidizing agent. The formation of composite (PANI/DBSA/V2O5) was confirmed with the help of analytical studies like scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and UV/Vis spectroscopy. SEM images show a substantial change in PANI morphology after incorporation of vanadium pentoxide. The optical characterizations by UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy show the increased absorption with addition of V2O5. The electrical conductivity has been studied in the frequency range of 20 Hz to 1MHz and it is found that PANI/DBSA:2%(V2O5) shows high electrical conductivity compared to pure PANI and other composites. It is observed that the dielectric constant and dielectric loss increase with concentration of V2O5. PANI/DBSA/V2O5 composites are most promising material for many electrical and potential applications. This semiconducting polymer combination of PANI and Vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) which produce hybrid material, behaves as semiconductor at low temperatures; this behavior is predicted by results of dielectric properties studied. Copyright © 2017 VBRI Press.
P. Rosaiah; G. Lakshmi Sandhya; S. Suresh; Jinghui Zhu; Yejun Qiu; O. M. Hussain
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Vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) thin films have been prepared onto ITO coated flexible Kapton substrates by electron beam evaporation technique. The influence of substrate temperature on the structural, morphological, optical and electrical properties has been investigated. The XRD results reveals that the ...
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Vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) thin films have been prepared onto ITO coated flexible Kapton substrates by electron beam evaporation technique. The influence of substrate temperature on the structural, morphological, optical and electrical properties has been investigated. The XRD results reveals that the films prepared at lower temperatures are amorphous in nature and the films prepared at 300 oC is exhibited predominant (001) orientation with an orthorhombic crystal structure. AFM study showed that the grain size varies from 80 nm to 150 nm. The optical studies revealed that the transmittance decreased with increasing substrate temperature. The optical absorption coefficient ‘a’ determined from the experimentally measured transmittance and reflectance data for V2O5 films was found to give a better fit for the exponent n = 3/2 suggesting the direct forbidden transitions with an estimated optical band gap of 2.31 eV for the films prepared at 300 oC. The electrical conductivity has been observed to be increased from 2 x 10-6 S/cm to 3 x 10-2 S/cm by varying temperature from 30 oC to 300 oC. The electrochemical experiments exhibited the discharge capacity of about 60 μAh/(cm2-μm) for the films deposited at 300 oC.
