Synthetic Metals 114 Ž2000. 155–160 www.elsevier.comrlocatersynmet Characterization of picric-acid-doped poly žo-toluidine/ and the picric-acid-doped poly žo-toluidine/ -induced conductive composite of acrylonitrile–butadiene–styrene Seddique M. Ahmed, Rahul C. Patil, Masaharu Nakayama, Kotaro Ogura) Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Yamaguchi UniÕersity, 2557 Tokiwadai, Ube 755-8611, Japan Received 24 August 1999; received in revised form 27 January 2000; accepted 14 March 2000 Abstract PolyŽ o-toluidine. ŽPOT. in emeraldine base form ŽEB. has been doped with picric acid ŽPA-doped POT. and dinitrophenol ŽDNP-doped POT.. The conductivities of these doped polymers were found to be 10.52 and 4.82 = 10y3 S cmy1 , respectively. The large difference in conductivity of these polymers is attributed to the more acidic nature of picric acid ŽPA. than dinitrophenol ŽDNP.. The disappearance of the peak at ; 650 nm due to EB and the presence of the peak at ; 850 nm due to localized polaron in the absorption spectra clearly reveal the dopant-induced protonation of POT. This is also supported from the XPS spectrum showing the disappearance of the peak at ; 398.2 " 0.1 eV due to the imine nitrogen component in EB and the appearance of the peak at ; 402.16 " 0.1 eV owing to the iminium ion Ž`NHq5. of PA-doped POT.The PA-doped POT is thermally stable up to 1408C and completely dedoped at ; 3008C. The mass spectra recorded simultaneously with the thermal weight loss showed several fragments due to the decomposition of PA in the temperature region from 1408C to 3008C. The observed high conductivity of PA-doped POT film is attributed to the expanded coil-like conformation, which was proven with the help of the reduced viscosity measurement. The composite of PA-doped POT with insulating acrylonitrile–butadiene–styrene copolymer ŽABS. was prepared, and the percolation threshold for this composite was ; 3 wt.%, which was considerably low compared to that for a typical composite, e.g., ; 16 vol.% for polyŽ3-alkylthiophenes. ŽP3ATs.rpolystyrene ŽPSt. composite. q 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved. Keywords: Picric acid; PolyŽ o-toluidine.; Acrylonitrile–butadiene–styrene 1. Introduction Electrically conducting polymers have attracted a huge amount of attention since they were discovered just two decades ago. Possibly, this could be due to potentialities for their application to various fields ranging from sensor and light weight batteries to printing circuit boards in a micro-circuit technology w1–6x. Many devices would need a balance of conductivity, processability and stability. The difficulty in processing conducting polymers, which is one of the barriers to be conquered in a practical use, has been considerably mitigated by protonating these polymers, e.g., the protonation of polyaniline ŽPANI. by functional organic acids w7x, such as camphor sulfonic w8–10x, dodecyl ) Corresponding author. Tel.: q81-836-35-9417; fax: q81-836-322886. E-mail address: [email protected] ŽK. Ogura.. benzene sulfonic w7,11x, and p-phenol-sulfonic acid w12– 14x. Furthermore, some other organic compounds like picric acid ŽPA., whose acidity is comparable to that of mineral acid w15,16x, can also be employed for the protonation of PANI. The protonation of PANI with PA has been prepared by the dry method w17x, and the PANI composite reported to exhibit excellent electrical, optical and mechanical properties w18,19x. So far, however, no reports are available on the wet protonation of polyŽ o-toluidine. ŽPOT. with PA. The wet method is interesting since such solution processability is useful for the fabrication of conducting composites with different insulating matrixes. In the present work, efforts have been made to characterize PA-doped POT and to prepare its composite with insulating acrylonitrile–butadiene–styrene copolymer ŽABS.. Additionally, dinitrophenol ŽDNP. and nitrophenols ŽNP. were utilized for the protonation of POT in order to examine the effect of nitro group in governing the protonation ability of these organic acids. 0379-6779r00r$ - see front matter q 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved. PII: S 0 3 7 9 - 6 7 7 9 Ž 0 0 . 0 0 2 3 9 - 3 156 S.M. Ahmed et al.r Synthetic Metals 114 (2000) 155–160 2. Experimental All chemicals used were of analytical reagent grade. POT was synthesised following the previously described procedure w18x. The HCl-doped POT was converted to the base form ŽPOT-EB. by treating it with 3% aqueous ammonia solution for 3 h, followed by washing with deionzied water, methanol and diethyl ether. The dried powdery POT-EB was then mixed with PA or other NPs at a given molar ratio using an agate mortar and pestle in an inert atmosphere. The 2% Žwrw. solution of PA-doped POT in m-cresol was prepared at 508C under ultrasonic irradiation for 1 h. The resulting viscous deep green solution was further utilized for the preparation of composites. The composite solutions with different weight ratios of PA-doped POT and ABS were obtained by mixing required quantities of both polymers at room temperature. The conductivities of acid-doped POT and its composite with ABS were measured by using a comb shaped Pt microelectrode. After casting the composite solution on the microelectrode and removing the solvent Ž m-cresol. at 508C, the conductivity was monitored by the two-probe method using a Hokuto Denko galvanostat Žmodel HA501.. The viscosity data of PA-doped POT in m-cresol solution were obtained with an Ostwald type viscometer ŽSibata, No. 3. at 24 " 18C. Thermogravimetricrmass analyses were performed with a Jeol MS-TGrDTA ŽModel 220. under He atmosphere. A given amount of PA, POT-EB and PA-doped POT was placed in a sample holder, and the temperature was changed from 408C to 6508C at the programmed heating rate of 58Crmin. UV-visible absorption spectra of PA, POT-EB and PAdoped POT in m-cresol solution were recorded on a Shimadzu double beam spectrophotometer ŽModel 2200.. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic ŽFTIR. measurements of POT-EB, PA and PA-doped POT in KBr pellets were carried out using a Shimadzu FTIR ŽType 8100 M. spectrometer. Transmission electron micrographs ŽTEM. of the PA-doped POT composite film were taken with a Hitachi apparatus ŽH 8000. in which the sample film was directly cast on carbon-coated copper grid. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic ŽXPS. analysis of the PA-doped POT film was carried out with a FISONS, ESCALB 210 apparatus using an Al K a X-ray source radiation Ž1486.6 eV photons.. The X-ray source was run at 15 kV and 20 mA. The energy resolution was better than 0.01 eV at the pass energy of 20 eV, and the vacuum in the analysis chamber was about 10y6 Pa. 3. Results and discussion 3.1. UV-Õisible spectra of PA, POT-EB and PA-doped POT Fig. 1 represents the absorption spectra of PA Ža., POT-EB Žb. and PA-doped POT Žc. in m-cresol solution. Fig. 1. UV-visible absorption spectra of Ža. PA, Žb. POT-EB, and Žc. PA-doped POT in m-cresol solution. POT-EB shows a well defined peak at ; 650 nm ŽFig. 1b. that is characteristic of emeraldine base. Upon the protonation of POT-EB with PA, the absorption due to the emeraldine base vanishes, and a new peak at ; 860 nm and a shoulder at ; 430 nm appear ŽFig. 1c., indicating the formation of localized polaron and radical cation in the emeraldine salt, respectively w20,21x. This suggests that PA operates as a protonating agent to induce the internal conversion of POT-EB to the emeraldine salt. The PA alone shows only the peak at ; 320 nm due to p–p ) transition ŽFig. 1a.. This absorption is enhanced for PAdoped POT, owing to the additional contribution of phenyl rings from the POT chain ŽFig. 1c.. 3.2. FTIR spectra of POT-EB, PA and PA-doped POT In Fig. 2, the FTIR spectra of POT-EB Ža., PA Žb. and PA-doped POT Žc. are shown, giving a clear evidence for the protonation of POT-EB. The peak appearing at 3390 cmy1 in Fig. 2a is attributed to the `NH stretching of POT-EB, and that at ; 3105 cmy1 in Fig. 2b is due to the hydroxyl group of PA. The absence of peak at ; 3105 cmy1 in the case of PA-doped POT ŽFig. 2c. suggests that PA is effectively dissociated, and the emeraldine base is doped with PA to form electrically conductive emeraldine salt. Moreover, the peaks at 1599 and 1493 cmy1 are ascribed to quinoid and benzenoid rings of POT-EB, respectively ŽFig. 2a.. These wavenumbers are shifted to 1560 and 1485 cmy1 , respectively, for PA-doped POT ŽFig. 2c.. Such red shift indicates the delocalization of quinoid and benzenoid structures to the semiquinoid form Žpolaron. in the polymer chain, confirming the protonation of the emeraldine base. The ratio in spectral intensity of benzenoid to quinoid form was lower for PA-doped POT than for POT-EB, revealing again the conversion of benzenoid ring to semiquinoid. In fact, the intensity of quinoid should be larger than that of benzenoid in the case of PA-doped POT since the peak at 1560 cmy1 should be piled up with that of NO 2 group appearing at ; 1558 cmy1 w17x. The peaks at ; 1632 and 1605 cmy1 appear- S.M. Ahmed et al.r Synthetic Metals 114 (2000) 155–160 157 ing moisture, and the other major fragments Ž mrz 30, 62, 91, 199 and 229. are due to PA. However, the intensities of these fragments were relatively low, and, therefore, one can suggest that these are caused by the excess PA, which has not been incorporated in the polymer backbone. Although the 1 to 2 molar ratio of EB to PA is the exact value required to give completely protonated polymer, it is true that there were unreacted POT and PA and partially protonated POT in the reaction mixture w20x. The two minor fragments at mrz 77 and 106 are related to POT oligomers. On further elevation of temperature to 2008C, the intensity of the fragment observed at mrz 199, corresponding to C 6 H 3 N2 O6 , was significantly enhanced, indicating that picrate ions were ready to be detached from the polymer backbone ŽFig. 3 t 2 .. At this temperature, however, there is no indication of degradation of the polymer backbone. More interestingly, at 3008C the mass spectra do not show any single fragment resulting from the decomposition of PA, suggesting that the acid was completely dedoped from the polymer. Oxygen atoms generated by Fig. 2. FTIR spectra of Ža. POT-EB, Žb. PA, and Žc. PA-doped POT. The measurements were performed in the transmission mode as KBr tablets. ing as a doublet are due to the asymmetric stretching vibration of NO 2 group, whereas the peak at 939 cmy1 is attributed to C`N stretching of the aromatic nitro compound. 3.3. TG r MS spectra of PA, POT-EB and PA-doped POT PA possessed one step decomposition pattern Ž160– 2358C.. On the other hand, POT-EB was thermally stable up to 3008C, and then degraded rapidly to attain a steady state at ; 6008C. The thermal behaviour of PA-doped POT described an intermediate characteristics between PA and POT-EB. It was found that PA-doped POT is stable up to 1408C and completely dedoped at ; 3008C, and the total weight loss was about ; 45%. The mass spectra obtained simultaneously during the thermal analysis provided some useful information about the degradation path of PA-doped POT. In Fig. 3, MS spectra obtained at different temperatures Ž t 1 , t 2 , t 3 . are exhibited. At 1108C, a sharp fragment of water molecule Ž mrz 18. is obviously owing to the ability of PA adsorb- Fig. 3. MS spectra of PA-doped POT taken at different temperatures. 158 S.M. Ahmed et al.r Synthetic Metals 114 (2000) 155–160 the degradation of PA may combine with carbon and hydrogen atoms from the decomposition of benzene rings to form CO 2 and H 2 O Ž mrz 18, 44.. The appearance of small fragments at mrz 272 and 296 suggests the initiation of full-scale polymer degradation. 3.4. Electrical conductiÕity, Õiscosity and XPS measurements As the optical absorption and FTIR spectra give a strong support for the protonation of POT by PA as mentioned above, it is essential to measure the conductivity of PA-doped POT and related polymers. The electrical conductivities of PA and POT-EB were too small to be measured by the method used. The values of 5.00 = 10y1 5 and 4.10 = 10y1 2 S cmy1 are often cited for the conductivities of PA w17x and POT-EB w22x, respectively. The conductivity of PA-doped POT was found to be 10.52 S cmy1 . On the other hand, when POT is incorporated with DNP, o-NP or p-NP instead of PA, the conductivities of these polymers become considerably low: 4.81 = 10y3 ŽDNP-doped POT., 4.85 = 10y5 Ž p-NP-doped POT., 4.04 = 10y5 S cmy1 Ž o-NP-doped POT., and the conductivity drops down about ; 3–5 orders of magnitude compared to that of PA-doped POT. Hence, it follows that the conductivities of doped POT depends considerably on the acidity of acids used. In the case of PA, the proton is easily released from the hydroxyl group due to the reduced electron density on the oxygen atom. The mesomeric effect of the aromatic system containing three nitro groups is thus responsible for high acidity, which is comparable to that of mineral acid w15,16x. As the number of nitro groups become smaller, the release of proton from the hydroxyl group becomes less efficient, and the acidities Žp K a . decreases in the sequences: PA Ž0.29. 4 DNP Ž4.11. 4 p-NP Ž7.15. , o-NP Ž7.23.. This conclusion is in agreement with the result obtained by MacDiarmid et al. w23,24x in which the conductivity of PANI emeraldine base is highly affected by the acidity of dopant. Fig. 4. Reduced viscosity Ža. and conductivity Žb. of PAyrEBHq m-cresol solutions as a function of molar ratio of PA to EB. The concentration of POT-EB was always 3.93=10y3 M. Scheme 1. It is interesting to note that the electrical conductivity of PA-doped POT Ž; 10.52 S cmy1 . is about three orders of magnitude higher than that of HCl-doped POT Ž; 10y2 S cmy1 . w15x. Such an enhancement of conductivity is probably caused by the formation of more delocalized state for PA-doped POT than HCl-doped POT w15x. In fact, MacDiarmid et al. w14,25x have demonstrated that the conformational change in polymer chain results in the significant change in conductivity of polymer. Recently, we have reported that POT doped with camphor sulfonic acid is soluble in m-cresol Ž8 wt.%., and the cast film shows a conductivity of ; 28 S cmy1 w26x. Such a high conductivity is attributed to the attainment of the expanded coil-like conformation. In the present study, a plot of reduced viscosity vs. molar ratio of EB to PA revealed the similar observation to the case of POT with camphor sulfonic acid w26x. As can be seen in Fig. 4a, the observed high conductivity Ž10.52 S cmy1 . of PA-doped POT film prepared at the molar ratio of 2 ŽPA. to 1 ŽPOT-EB. is attributed to the change in the molecular conformation from coil to expanded coil-like. On the other hand, the reduced viscosity of PAyrEBHq in m-cresol increases with an increase in the molar ratio, and reaches a maximum at the ratio of 2 to 1 ŽFig. 4b., indicating the complete protonation of POT to produce polysemiquinone radical cation. Hence, the structure of the protonated polysemiquinone radical tetramer unit present in PAyrEBHq solution can be displayed in Scheme 1. The initial increase in reduced viscosity up to the molar ratio of 2 to 1 suggests the change in the polymer conformation from coil to expanded coil. This transformation is increasing favorable as the hydrodynamic volume of the polymer increases, i.e., with increasing the viscosity of the polymer solution w14,25x. The expanded coil-like conformation especially facilitates the delocalization of electron through the polymer backbone, leading to the enhancement of conductivity of the polymer. The slight decrease in the reduced viscosity at the molar ratio of 3.2 to 1 and 4 to 1 is consistent with the property observed commonly in polyelectrolytes w27x. The presence of expanded coil-like conformation can be also proven from the absorption spectra showing in Fig. 5 where they were recorded in the range between 400 and 1400 nm. Free carrier tail around ; 1000 nm is observed for the mixtures of PA and EB with the molar ratios of 4 to 1 and 2 to 1 ŽFig. 5a and b., demonstrating that the S.M. Ahmed et al.r Synthetic Metals 114 (2000) 155–160 Fig. 5. Electronic spectra of PA-doped POT at various ratios of PA to EB in m-cresol solution. The molar ratio of PA to EB: Ža. 4, Žb. 2 and Žc. 0.4. polymer is in expanded coil like conformation. Contrary to this, for the mixture with the molar ratio of 0.4 to 1, no free carrier tail was observed ŽFig. 5c., but two prominent peaks at ; 660 and 860 nm instead. These peaks are due to the emeraldine base and localized polaron, respectively. Hence, in the mixture of EB with lower content of PA, POT is partly protonated and the polymer chains exist in a more coil-like conformation. Furthermore, PA-doped POT was characterized by XPS. The imine nitrogen component, centered at binding energy ; 398.2 " 0.1 eV w28–30x in the emeraldine base, disappeared completely. The peak located at ; 402.16 " 0.1 eV was assigned to the generated iminium ions Ž`NHq 5. of the PA-doped POT solid film. The presence of about equal amounts of imine and amine nitrogen Žpeak centered at ; 398.6 and ; 402.16 eV. was consistent with the intrinsic oxidation state of the polymer wratio Ž`NH`.r5N`. ; 1.x w31x. 3.5. Preparation of conductiÕe ABS by the incorporation of PA-doped POT In Fig. 6, the conductivity of the composite is plotted vs. the weight percentage of PA-doped POT in the ABS 159 Fig. 7. TEM image of the PA-doped POTrABS composite with 20 wt.% of PA-doped POT. The operating voltage was 10 kV. matrix, showing the percolation threshold at ; 3%. This percolation threshold is considerably lower than, e.g., that Ž; 16 vol.%. reported w32x for percholate-doped polyŽ3-alkylthiophenes. ŽP3ATs.rpolystyrene ŽPSt. composite. Earlier, Cao et al. w7x have proven that in the composite with counter ion-induced conducting polymer, the conductivity turns on at the concentration that is at least an order of magnitude below the classical percolation threshold Ž; 16 vol.%.. Their value is in good agreement with our result described above. Such a low threshold is attributed to conducting channels formed in the composite through which electron can travel easily leading to the observed conductivity. Fizazi et al. w33x have studied the conducting polyŽ3-octylthiophene. ŽP3OT. doped with iodine in polyethyene ŽPE. gel, and found an evidence about the connected conducting paths, but with no indication of percolation threshold. They discussed their results in terms of adsorption of the P3OT onto the PE gel network, which subsequently organizes the P3OT into connected paths. This view is consistent with our result obtained here. The TEM image of the composite containing 20 wt.% of PA-doped POT as shown in Fig. 7. As seen in this figure, ABS composite with this content of PA-doped POT denotes fine rod-shape particles of size ranging from 20 to 80 nm embedded in insulating ABS. These particles are seen to be placed very closed to each other, and electrons can hop easily on it, thereby responsible for the conduction in this composite. 4. Conclusions Fig. 6. Plot of electrical conductivity of the PA-doped POTrABS composite vs. weight % of PA-doped POT in ABS matrix. 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