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The ionic conductivity of poly(ethylene oxide) and poly(propylene oxide) in pure solution form, individually complexed with salts of Na+ and Li+, with and without plasticizer (propylene carbonate) and in blended form with individual salt with and without plasticizer, was studied. The conductance measurements were made at various concentrations of salt polymer complexes and at different temperatures. The effects of temperature and plasticizer concentration were measured from Arrhenius conductance plots. It is shown that the addition of salts in pure PEO increases conductance many times. The plasticizer has also same effect. The blending of PEO with PPO gives enhanced conductivity as compared to pure PEO. The activation energies were determined for all the systems which gave higher values for pure PEO and the value decreases with the addition of Li and Na salts and further decreases with the addition of plasticizer. The blending has also lowered the activation energy values which mean that incorporation of PPO in PEO has decreased crystallinity and the amorphous region has increased the local mobility of polymer chains resulting in lower activation energies.
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Khan, M.S., Shakoor, A. & Nisar, J. Conductance study of poly(ethylene oxide)- and poly(propylene oxide)-based polyelectrolytes. Ionics 16, 539–542 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-010-0424-3
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