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The influence of the addition of tungsten trioxide nanoparticle size on structure, thermal, and electroactivity properties of hybrid material–reinforced PANI

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Nanomaterials are synthetized by aniline with different contents of WO3 nanoparticles using a chemical oxidative polymerization method. FTIR, ultraviolet–visible, XPS, SEM, and XRD confirmed the successful synthesis of the three PANI@WO3 samples. Thermogravimetric analysis shows an improved thermal stability by the presence of WO3 in nanocomposites compared with PANI. Interestingly, the analysis of the band gap shows lowest value of optical band gap of 1.88 eV for PANI@WO3 (0.5) compared with PANI@WO3 (1.0) and PANI@WO3 (1.5) with 1.91 eV and 1.98 eV, respectively. In addition, the electroactivity properties were investigated by cyclic voltammetry to explore the benefits of these types of hybrid materials in electrochemical applications.

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Authors are grateful to thank the Management D.G.R.S.D.T. Algeria for providing facilities for this work and also thankful to Instituto Universitario de Materiales of Alicante University, Spain, for the availing cooperation and for the analyses support.

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  1. L.S.T.E Laboratory, University of Mustapha Stambouli Mascara, Mascara, Algeria

    M. S. Belardja, H. Djelad & Abdelghani Benyoucef

  2. Laboratoire de chimie des matériaux, Faculté des Sciences Exactes et Appliquées, Université Oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella, Oran, Algeria

    M. Lafjah

  3. Faculté des Sciences et Technologies, Université de Mustapha Stambouli Mascara, Mascara, Algeria

    F. Chouli

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Belardja, M.S., Djelad, H., Lafjah, M. et al. The influence of the addition of tungsten trioxide nanoparticle size on structure, thermal, and electroactivity properties of hybrid material–reinforced PANI. Colloid Polym Sci 298, 1455–1463 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-020-04720-6

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