Thermoreversible Gels of Polyaniline: Viscoelastic and Electrical Evidence on Fusible Network Structures
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Abstract
We demonstrate thermoreversible gelation of a conductive polymer, i.e., rubber-like melt processible electrically conducting compounds. Combination of viscoelastic and electrical conductivity measurements suggests network formation in the gel state and gel melting at elevated temperatures. The gels have been prepared by dissolving polyaniline in dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid (DBSA) using formic acid as a processing medium which was removed at the end. Importantly, without formic acid, reversible gelation and particle-free materials were not achieved even at the resolution of optical microscopy. For T Tgel the onset of liquid-like flow is detected using modified ball drop method by dynamic mechanical analysis, the dynamic moduli become strongly frequency dependent, and the electrical conductivity drops orders of magnitude to the value corresponding to the ionic conductivity of DBSA, suggesting that the chains are not in direct contact. The physical cross-links are probably localized mesomorphic domains which allow melting.
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