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Preparation and characterization of polyacrylonitrile / antimony doped tin oxide composite nanofibers by electrospinning method

WEI PAN1,* , XIAOWEI HE1, YAN CHEN1

Affiliation

  1. School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Zhongyuan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450007, P. R. China

Abstract

Polyacrylonitrile (PAN)/Antimony Doped Tin Oxide (ATO) composite nanofibers were prepared by electrospinning composite solutions of ATO and PAN in N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF). The surface morphology, thermal properties and crystal structure of PAN/ATO nanofibers are characterized using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), wide-angle x-ray diffraction (WAXD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Thermo gravimetric analyses (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The results indicate that the introduction of ATO nanoparticles into the polymer matrix has a significant effect on the crystallinity of PAN and a strong interaction between PAN and ATO nanoparticles..

Keywords

Electrospinning, PAN, ATO, Nanofibers.

Citation

WEI PAN, XIAOWEI HE, YAN CHEN, Preparation and characterization of polyacrylonitrile / antimony doped tin oxide composite nanofibers by electrospinning method, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 4, 3, March 2010, pp.390-394 (2010).

Submitted at: Jan. 31, 2010

Accepted at: March 12, 2010