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Facile route to porous polyaniline@nanodiamond-graphene based nanohybrid structures for DC electrical conductivity retention and supercapacitor applications

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Herein, in this work we have developed macroporous nanocomposite of polyaniline (Pani) with nanodiamond (ND) and graphene (GN) by the combination of oxidative aniline polymerization and hydrothermal methodology to prepare the overall composite. Morphological features showed that the ND particles and Pani tubes have been well dispersed inside the GN, thereby forming structures with high porosity. The high conductivity of GN in addition to the high thermal stability of ND is expected to give highly stable conductive Pani-ND@GN composite. The electrical transport studies was done by DC electrical conductivity retention under aging experiments and the Pani-ND@GN nanocomposites showed high stability under ambient conditions. Three electrode assembly was used for the electrochemical supercapacitive characteristics i.e. the cyclic voltammetric (CV) curves and galvanostatic charge discharge (GCD) of Pani-ND@GN. The obtained nanocomposite delivered a high capacitance of 150.20 F/g at 2 A/g and high cyclic stability of 84% after continuous 1000 charge-discharge cycles.

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This work was supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, under grant No. (D-049-903-1438). The authors, therefore, gratefully acknowledge the DSR technical and financial support.

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  1. Center of Nanotechnology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia

    Mohammad Omaish Ansari & Ahmed Alshahrie

  2. Physics Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Ahmed Alshahrie

  3. Department of Physics, College of Science, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

    Sajid Ali Ansari

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Ansari, M.O., Alshahrie, A. & Ansari, S.A. Facile route to porous polyaniline@nanodiamond-graphene based nanohybrid structures for DC electrical conductivity retention and supercapacitor applications. J Polym Res 26, 76 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10965-019-1736-2

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