Facile fabrication of polyaniline/polypyrrole copolymer nanofibers with a rough surface and their electrorheological activities

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Hierarchical polyaniline/polypyrrole (PANI/PPy) copolymer nanofiber was prepared via a two‐step method and adopted as dispersing materials for electrorheological (ER) fluids. The first step was used to synthesize PANI nanofibers by a rapid mixing method. Subsequently, the PANI/PPy copolymer nanofibers with a rough surface were obtained using an in situ polymerization method continuously. The morphology of the resultant PANI/PPy copolymer nanofibers can be controlled by varying the amount of Py monomer in the secondary in situ polymerization method. The rough surface of PANI/PPy copolymer nanofibers were confirmed by scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. The diameter of PANI/PPy nanofiber is within the range 100–200 nm. The obtained PANI/PPy copolymer particles all exhibit amorphous structure through X‐ray diffraction measurement. We also demonstrated that the hierarchical PANI/PPy copolymer nanofibers exhibited characteristic ER behaviors, which were investigated using a Haake rotational rheometer at various electric field strengths. The ER efficiency e for PANI‐1mLPPy and PANI‐2mLPPy ER fluids at shear rate 0.1 s −1 is 36.6 and 28.5 under electric field strength E = 3 kV/mm, respectively. Low leaking current density is observed even at high electric field strength and wide plateau region appeared, which show a strong ER activity for the PANI/PPy composite nanofibers. The results also indicate that the PANI/PPy composite particles have distinctly enhanced ER effect compared with the pure PANI and PPy particles under electric stimuli. The significantly improved ER property of PANI/PPy‐based ER fluid is ascribed to the enhanced interfacial polarization. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2018 , 135 , 46289.

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