Investigation of the Electro-Mechanical Behavior of Hybrid Polyaniline/Graphene Nanocomposites Fabricated by Dynamic Interfacial Inverse Emulsion Polymerization
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53521#.VMdF_CzQrzE Author(s) Rami Regueira 1,2 , Ran Yosef Suckeveriene 2,3 , Irena Brook 1,2 , Guy Mechrez 2 , Roza Tchoudakov 2 , Moshe Narkis 2* Affiliation(s) 1 Interdepartmental Program in Polymer Engineering, Technion-IIT, Haifa, Israel . 2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion-IIT, Haifa, Israel . 3 Department of Water Industries Engineering, Kinneret College in the Jordan Valley, Zemach, Israel . ABSTRACT This paper describes a study on electrical resistivity under loading of polyaniline (PANI)/graphene nanocomposite powders and compacts. The composites were prepared by an in-situ interfacial dynamic inverse emulsion polymerization technique under sonication of aniline in the presence of graphene sheets in chloroform. During polymerization the graphene nanoplatelets are coated with PANI and are well dispersed both in the polymer...