Influence of the NiO nanoparticles on the ionic conductivity of the agar-based electrolyte

Autor: Dalal Jaber Suliman Abdullah Audeh, José Bernedo Alcázar, Carlos Veiga Barbosa, Neftalí Lenin Villarreal Carreño, César Antonio Oropesa Avellaneda, Agnieszka Pawlicka, Ellen Raphael
Jazyk: English<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Polímeros, Vol 24, Iss spe, Pp 8-12 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1678-5169
DOI: 10.4322/polimeros.2014.055
Popis: NiO nanoparticles with an average size of 15 nm were prepared by a simple, reproducible and low-cost controlled method, using nickel nitrate hexahydrate (Ni(NO3)2·6H2O). These nanoparticles were added to an agar-based polymer electrolyte formula, resulting, after reflux and solution casting, in a proton conducting membrane. The highest ionic conductivity values of 5.19x10-5 S cm-1 at room temperature and 3.32x10-4 S cm-1 at 80 ºC, were obtained for the sample with 50 wt. % of acetic acid and 0.25 g of NiO. Moreover, the samples showed 75 % of transparency in the visible region, a homogeneous surface and mainly amorphous structure. All the obtained results suggest that agar-based polymer electrolyte with NiO nanoparticles are promising candidates for electrochemical devices application.
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