Electrospun PANI-PMMA and PANI-PMMA-AgNO3 Composite Nanofibers

In this paper we report upon the preparation and characterization of electrospun nanofibersof doped polyaniline (PANI)/poly(methyl methacrylate) PANI-PMMA/AgNO3 by electrospinningtechnique. At first, Doped polyaniline (PANI) was obtained by the polymerization of aniline using chemicaloxidative polymerization in the presence of ammonium peroxydisulfate (APS). The doped PANI wasdedoped by ammonia solution. Then, the electrospinning method was applied on the solutions involvingPANI-PMMA, PANI-PMMA-AgNO3. The as-prepared PANI-PMMA and PANI-PMMA-AgNO3 compositenanofibers were investigated for structural characterizations by means of SEM, FTIR and UV-VIS. SEMtechnique was used to investigate the morphology of the accumulated fibers or particles on the Alsurface collector. SEM revealed the nanofibers with the diameter Micro to nanofibers formed a nonwovenmaterial with highly porous and agglomerated structure. The presence of Ag in the case of Agcontaining composite nanofibers was confirmed by EDAX.