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Thermal stability, decomposition and glass transition behavior of PANI/NiO composites

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Polyaniline/NiO (PANI/NiO) composites were synthesized by in situ polymerization at the presence of HCl (as dopant). FTIR, TEM and XRD were used to characterize the composites. Thermogravimetry (TG)–mass spectrometer (MS) and temperature modulated differential scanning calorimetry (TMDSC) were used to study the thermal stability, decomposition and glass transition temperature (T g) of the composites, respectively. FTIR and XRD results showed that NiO nanoparticles connected with PANI chains in the PANI/NiO composites. TEM results exhibited that the morphologies of PANI/NiO composites were mostly spherical, which were different from the wirelike PANI. TG–MS curves indicated that the products for oxidative degradation of both PANI and PANI/NiO composite were H2O, CO2, NO and NO2. TG curves showed that with NiO contents increased in PANI/NiO composites, thermal stability of PANI/NiO composites increased firstly and then decreased when the NiO content was higher than 66.2 wt%. T g of PANI/NiO composites also increased from 163.19 to 252.36 °C with NiO content increasing from 0 to 50 wt%, and then decreased with NiO content increasing continuously.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support for this work from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 2083309, 20873148, 50671098 and U0734005) and the National High Technology Research and Development Program (863 Program) of China (No. 2007AA05Z115 and 2007AA05Z102).

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  1. Materials and Thermochemistry Laboratory, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian, 116023, People’s Republic of China

    Yanni Qi, Jian Zhang, Shujun Qiu & Lixian Sun

  2. Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, 116023, People’s Republic of China

    Fen Xu

  3. School of Material Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, People’s Republic of China

    Min Zhu & Liuzhang Ouyang

  4. Department of Material Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, People’s Republic of China

    Dalin Sun

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Qi, Y., Zhang, J., Qiu, S. et al. Thermal stability, decomposition and glass transition behavior of PANI/NiO composites. J Therm Anal Calorim 98, 533–537 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-009-0298-7

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