Transition metal doped poly(aniline-co-pyrrole)/multi-walled carbon nanotubes nanocomposite for high performance supercapacitor electrode materials
By Saptarshi Dhibar and Pallab Bhattacharya and Goutam Hatui and C.K. Das
Published in Journal of Alloys and Compounds
2015
Abstract
In this present communication, copolymer of polyaniline (PANI) and polypyrrole (PPy) that is poly(aniline-co-pyrrole) [poly(An-co-Py)], copper chloride (CuCl2) doped poly(aniline-co-pyrrole) [poly(An-co-Py) Cu], and CuCl2 doped poly(aniline-co-pyrrole)/multi walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) [poly(An-co-Py) Cu CNT] nanocomposite have been prepared by a simple and inexpensive in-situ chemical oxidative polymerization method, using ammonium persulfate (APS) as oxidant and hydrochloric acid (HCl) as dopant and investigated as high performance supercapacitor electrode materials. The possible interaction between CuCl2 with copolymers and \MWCNTs\ was investigated by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and UV