title: Strong adhesion and smooth conductive surface via graft polymerization of aniline on a modified glass fiber surface.
abstract: The goal of this paper is to prepare surface-conductive glass fibers. The fibers were first hydroxylated, after which they were reacted with 3-bromopropyltrichlorosilane to form a bromopropylsilane monolayer, which was further reacted with aniline to substitute the bromine atoms. The surface-bound aniline molecules were used as active sites for the graft polymerization of polyaniline (PANI). The composition, structure and the morphology of the modified glass fiber surface were examined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The method generated a smooth and homogenous thin layer of PANI on the surface of the glass fiber with a surface conductivity of about 6 S/cm, hence larger than the usual value ( approximately 1 S/cm) of the bulk polyaniline.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA.
authors.forename: Z F
authors.initials: ZF
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ruckenstein