Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1443968 Synthetic Metals 2006 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

DBSA-doped polyaniline powder (DBSA-PANI) was mixed with Fe nanoparticles to obtain the DBSA-PANI-Fe composite. Powder of the composite was compacted to the pellets to study the electrical property and magnetization characteristic by measuring the conductivity in 100–300 K and the magnetization curve at room temperature. The conductivity of the composite pellet is linearly decreased from 0.25 ± 0.02 to 0.07 ± 0.01 S/cm with increasing the Fe nanoparticle content from 0 to 70 wt.%. For the pellets containing the Fe nanoparticles less than 70 wt.%, the variation of conductivity with temperature reveals that the charge transport mechanism can be considered to be one-dimensional variable-range-hopping (1D-VRH). For the pellet with 70 wt.%-Fe nanoparticles, however, the charge transport mechanism cannot be well understood in terms of the VRH model. All the DBSA-PANI-Fe composite pellets show a magnetic hysteresis loop and a hard magnetization characteristic. The saturation magnetization monotonously increases from 32 to 78 emu/g with increasing the Fe nanoparticle content from 30 to 70 wt.%. The saturation field and the coercivity are estimated to be about 5500 and 385 Oe, respectively, independent of the Fe nanoparticle content.

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