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Proton conducting polymer electrolytes based on PVdF-PVA with NH4NO3

  • Muthuvinayagam Muthiah , Gopinathan Chellasamy , Rajeswari Natarajan , Selvasekarapandian Subramanian EMAIL logo and Sanjeeviraja Chinnappa
Published/Copyright: May 15, 2013
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Journal of Polymer Engineering
From the journal Journal of Polymer Engineering Volume 33 Issue 4

Abstract

Conducting polymer electrolyte films were prepared based on poly (vinylidene fluoride) (PVdF) and poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) by using a solution casting technique. The optimized PVdF-PVA polymer blend ratio was doped with different concentrations of NH4NO3 and polymer blend electrolytes were prepared. The increase in amorphous nature of the polymer electrolytes was confirmed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis and optical microscopic studies. The complex formation between the polymers and the salt was confirmed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis. The ac impedance studies were performed to evaluate the ionic conductivity of the polymer electrolyte membranes in the range 303–333 K and the highest ionic conductivity was found to be 2.91×10-4 S/cm at ambient temperature for PVdF-PVA-NH4NO3 (80:20:25 MWt%) polymer electrolyte, with activation energy Ea=0.7 eV. The dielectric behavior of the electrolytes was also studied.

Keywords: FTIR; impedance analysis; optical images; PVdF and PVA blend; XRD
Corresponding author: Selvasekarapandian Subramanian, Department of Nanosciences and Technology, Karunya University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India

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Received: 2012-11-8
Accepted: 2013-4-9
Published Online: 2013-05-15
Published in Print: 2013-07-01

©2013 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston

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https://doi.org/10.1515/polyeng-2012-0146
Keywords for this article
FTIR; impedance analysis; optical images; PVdF and PVA blend; XRD

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