Hybrid polyaniline-coated sepiolite nanofibers for electrorheological fluid applications

Electrorheological Properties of Polyaniline Suspensions

Polyaniline (PANI) was synthesized via an oxidative coupling polymerization in acid condition and dedoped in ammonium hydroxide solution. Rheological properties of the PANI/silicone oil suspensions were investigated in the oscillatory shear mode to explore the effects of electric field strength, particle concentration, and host fluid viscosity on electrorheological (ER) characteristics. The PAN...

Electrospinning polyaniline-contained gelatin nanofibers for tissue engineering applications.

Polyaniline (PANi), a conductive polymer, was blended with a natural protein, gelatin, and co-electrospun into nanofibers to investigate the potential application of such a blend as conductive scaffold for tissue engineering purposes. Electrospun PANi-contained gelatin fibers were characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electrical conductivity measurement, mechanical tensile tes...

Polyaniline nanofibers: a unique polymer nanostructure for versatile applications.

Known for more than 150 years, polyaniline is the oldest and potentially one of the most useful conducting polymers because of its facile synthesis, environmental stability, and simple acid/base doping/dedoping chemistry. Because a nanoform of this polymer could offer new properties or enhanced performance, nanostructured polyaniline has attracted a great deal of interest during the past few ye...

Tin Oxide-Carbon-Coated Sepiolite Nanofibers with Enhanced Lithium-Ion Storage Property

Natural sepiolite (Sep) nanofibers were coated with carbon and nanoscale SnO2 to prepare an emerging nanocomposite (SnO2-C@Sep), which exhibited enhanced electrochemical performance. Sepiolite could act as a steady skeleton, carbon coating principally led sepiolite from an isolated to an electric state, and decoration of nanoscale SnO2 was beneficial to the functionization of sepiolite. Cycling...

Spectroscopy of Polyaniline Nanofibers