Polyaniline and polypyrrole: A comparative study of the preparation |
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Authors: | Natalia V. Blinova,Miroslava Trchová ,Má ria Omastová |
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Affiliation: | a Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic b Charles University Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, 180 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic c Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 842 36 Bratislava, Slovakia |
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Abstract: | Aniline and pyrrole have been oxidized with ammonium peroxydisulfate in aqueous solutions, in the presence of equimolar quantities of hydrochloric acid. The oxidation of pyrrole was faster; the induction period typical of aniline oxidation was absent in the case of pyrrole. As the proportion of oxidant-to-monomer molar concentration increased up to 1.5, the yield increased in both cases. Similarities between the two oxidations are illustrated and discussed. The oxidant-to-monomer molar ratio 1.25 is proposed to be the optimum stoichiometry, in the accordance with the data published in the literature. The conductivities of the polymers prepared were only slightly dependent on the oxidant-to-monomer ratio in the range 0.3-1.5, and were of the order of 100 S cm−1 for polyaniline and ∼10−2-10−1 S cm−1 for polypyrrole. Outside this interval, the conductivity of both polymers was reduced. Polyaniline having conductivity ∼10 S cm−1 was produced in solutions of phosphoric acid of various concentrations. On the contrary, the conductivity of polypyrrole was reduced as the concentration of phosphoric acid became higher. The type of protonation is discussed with the help of FTIR spectra by analyzing the ammonium salts obtained after deprotonation. Sulfate or hydrogen sulfate anions produced from peroxydisulfate always constitute a part of the counter-ions. |
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Keywords: | Conducting polymer Polyaniline Polypyrrole Conductivity Oxidative polymerization |
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