Investigation of electrical conductivity and electromagnetic shielding effectiveness of polyaniline composite

With the increasing of electromagnetic pollution and the widely use of commercial and military products, there is an increasing interest in electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding. This paper mainly aims at electrical conductivity and EMI shielding effectiveness (SE) of the conducting composites made from silicone rubber (SR) with different loading levels of HCl-doped polyaniline (PAN-HCl) in the low frequency range from 3 to 1500 MHz. The result indicates that SE of the composites increase and the volume resistivity decrease with increasing mass ratio loading of PAN-HCl in the SR. The measured SE of the composites are from 16 to 19.3 dB at 100 mass ratio loading of the PAN-HCl and the volume resistivity decrease nine orders of magnitude compared with that of the emeraldine base form of PAN (PAN-EB) composites.