Enhancement Of Optical And Electrical Studies On Pva Ag Nanocomposite Films

Nano-composite plastics and carbon nanotubes have been utilized for industrial and consumer packaging, the later offering an improved packaging solution for electronics components by making the materials used lighter and stronger. Nano-porous silica is a high porous, low-density solid material that supports various temperatures making it a great insulation product that can be applied in a wide range of fields from pipe insulation to refrigerators and even microelectronics. Nanoparticle based colloids are employed in the manufacturing of sunscreens, paints, and printer inks and nano-coatings can be applied in order to obtain scratch resistant surfaces. Composite nano-materials can be considered the basis for all the other current and future commercial applications of nanotechnology.

Polypyrrole is a conducting polymer which has non-degenerate conduction band in the ground state. The polarons and bipolarons are the dominant charge carriers in these polymers. The most widely accepted method of conductivity in these systems involve charge transport along the polymer chains, as well as hopping of carriers (holes, bipolarons). A common feature of intrinsically conducting polymers is the alternate double and single bond in the polymer backbone , referred as pi bond conjugation. The conductivity is due to four conditions namely, the existence of charge carriers, an overlap of molecular orbits to aid mobility of the carriers, mobility of pi bond and hopping of charges between polymer chains. These conducting polymers are similar to semiconductors with a filled valence band and an empty conduction band separated by energy gap. when polymers are doped new bands are created in the gap, making the paths for the electrons to move through these bands and increasing the conductivity of the materials. In the undoped form Polypyrrole is a insulator. The electronic and transport properties of the conducting polymers are mainly due to the major role of bipolarons. The positive charges commonly called as polarons created on the polymer backbone are responsible for electrical conductivity. The conductivity of polypyrrole depends on synthesis

PVA glue and borax is the structure of a standard slime. PVA in PVA glue stand for polyvinyl alcohol or polyvinyl acetate. PVA glue and borax are the structure of standard slime recipes because they are links and chains. PVA glue is a regular elmers glue that can be found in craft stores. When slime is made there is a chemical reaction.

Wang, Y., Chen, K.S., Mishler, J., Cho, S.C., and Adroher, X.C. (2011)A Review of Polymer ElectrolyteMembrane Fuel Cells: Technology, Applications, and Needs on Fundamental Research, Applied Energy, 88, (4), pp. 981-1007.

In our study, a nanocrystalline PEDOT: PSS polymeric counter electrode was used instead of the Pt counter electrode to reduce the cost of the DSSC. We present a detailed study of the photovoltaic response as current-voltage (I-V) and C-V characterization of the DSSC based on PEDOT: PSS. The conduction mechanism and the negative capacitance of the studied cell are analyzed in

Polymers have been changing the way we live for over 100 years. Their availability and diverse qualities ensure that they are always in high demand, and new polymers are always being discovered. Where does this leave the now commonplace polymers which once were ubiquitous in commerce? Polymers such as polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride (Bakelite) and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) were first synthesised in 1907 and 1938 respectively, making them old by polymer standards. Although the original polymer applications are now redundant, they have found uses in new areas of society. This dynamic aspect of polymers is due to their unique structure. Polymers are created from many small molecules (or monomers) reacting with each other, and arranging

PPV, otherwise known as polyphenylene vinylene are electric conductors that processed into tiny films which emit a bright fluorescent yellow light which could potentially be a replacement for LEDS in electronics. PPV is prepared from p-xylene-bis and the addition of acetonitrile-tetrabutylammonium tetrafluoroborate and from there, the product is treated with heat to eliminate diethyl sulfide, HCL, and ethyl sulfide to form the final product, PPV. Similarly, another method, called direct chemical polymerization, formed PPV but it was only in the form of powder which could not be turned into tiny films for commercial use. In lab, we learned that PPV precursor can be synthesized in a one step reaction from p-xylene using NBs. In the reaction with

The polyvinyl alcohol (Mw ¼ 125,000 gm/mole, polydispersity index: PDI ¼ 0.25), and silver nitrate (AgNO3, 99.8% purity) were purchased from the SigmaeAldrich Chemicals. The PVA-Ag nanocomposite films were prepared by the in-situ chemical reduction method [8e12]. Sample b with 0.4 wt % of silver was prepared by dissolving silver nitrate in 5 mL of bidistilled water and 1.5 g of PVA in 50 mL of the bidistilled water. The temperature of PVA solution was kept at 65 C for 2 h. When the PVA becomes completely dissolved, the AgNO3 solutionwas added drop by drop by using a burette at constant 65 C for 0.1 h.

Silver nitrate AgNO3 (≥99.0%) and PVP (Average molecular weight ~55,000) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. Ethylene glycol (EG) and Hydrochloric acid (HCl) were purchased from Merck specialities Pvt Ltd. All the chemicals were used as received without any purification. We synthesized silver nanocubes (Ag NCs) by a typical polyol method. In a typical synthesis, 12.5 mL of ethylene glycol was poured in 50 mL of round bottom flask and heated at 140°C for 1 h under stirring. An amount of 2.5 mL of HCl solution (3.3mM in EG) was quickly injected into the reaction mixture. After 10 min, 7.5 mL of AgNO3 solution (94mM in EG) and 7.5 mL of PVP (147mM in EG) solutions were simultaneously injected into the stirring solution. The reaction mixture was

Silver has been used since Roman times as a disinfectant because of its well-known antimicrobial properties. AgNPs are considered attractive building blocks for nanomaterial architectures based upon the nanoparticles size and shape (Shipway etal 2000).

In 1937 two German workers produced a new polymer that had advantages over existing plastics made from polycondensation and was not covered by existing patients like that of Wallace Carothers polyesters patent. This polymer was polyurethane. Polyurethanes belong to the family of reaction polymers, which also consist of unsaturated polyesters epoxies and phenolics, it is produced by reacting an isocyanate containing two or more isocyanate groups per molecule with a polyol containing on average two or more hydroxy groups per molecule in the presence of a catalyst or by activation with ultraviolet light. The properties of polyurethane are directly related to the polyol, and isocyanates used. For instance, high amounts of crosslinking produce

Polyvinyl chloride is probably one of the most commonly used molecules out there, but also one of the most under rated and over looked molecule out there. It is very commonly used, part of humans everyday lives. Without polyvinyl chloride, people couldn't get shower. People couldn't use a credit card, wouldn't have a roof. Due to the fact that polyvinyl chloride is a odorless and solid plastic (ToxTown).

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Polyimides are high performance polymers with excellent electrical properties, high thermal stability, and high strength and stiffness at elevated temperatures. They also have a high chemical resistance and are therefore typically not soluble in common solvents. Because of solubility issues the molecular weight (MW) and molecular weight distribution (MWD) of polyimides is near impossible to obtain and in some cases the data listed is based on soluble precursors to the particular polyimide of interest. These precursors are typically only soluble in amide solvents and because of this the results obtained are questionable due to strong interactions that the polymer, mobile phase/eluent, and stationary phase/column have with one another due to the polyelectrolyte effect.