title: Fabrication and characterizations of oligopyrrole doped with dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid in reverse microemulsion.
abstract: The pyrrole-oligomer nanoparticles doped dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid (DBSA) have been fabricated in water-DBSA-isopropyl alcohol-isooctane reverse microemulsion, since DBSA could play the roles of both surfactant and dopant. We have found the optimum synthetic conditions by the analysis of factors affecting the yield and conductivity of oligopyrrole. The effect of solubility on the improved properties of DBSA-oligopyrrole in some organic solvents was studied employing UV-vis-NIR spectroscopy. This indicates that doping and pyrrole-oligomers may improve the poor processibility of PPy. Its environmentally stable properties were characterized by thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis (TG-DTA). The maximum room temperature conductivity of products is 8.01 S/cm using the four-probe technique. The pyrrole-oligomers have been determined by the analysis of molecular weight measurement, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and elemental analysis were employed to investigate the formation of DBSA-oligopyrrole complexes. Correspondingly, the structural properties of DBSA-oligopyrrole were studied by infrared spectroscopy (IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron micrographs (TEM), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Mingjuan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.forename: Dongxue
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu