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Complex voscosity (Pa.s)<br />

1,0E+06<br />

1,0E+05<br />

1,0E+04<br />

1,0E+03<br />

1,0E+02<br />

1,0E+01<br />

1,0E+00<br />

Figure 4-2. Complex viscosity as a function of frequency at 190ºC for the homopolymers. The<br />

complex viscosity of PANI is at 180ºC.<br />

4.3.3 Sample Preparation<br />

0,01 0,1 1 10 100 1000<br />

Frequency (rad s -1 )<br />

Various blends were prepared via melt-blending un<strong>de</strong>r a flow of dry nitrogen in a 30mL<br />

Braben<strong>de</strong>r operating at a set temperature of 200 °C and 50 rpm. The maximum shear rate at this<br />

speed is close to 25 s -1 .(Philippe Lavalle, et al., 2004) The real temperature achieved by the end<br />

of mixing experiment was approximately 185°C. A value of 0.7 fill factor was selected and thus<br />

after converting the volume to the mass and weighing the material, the mixing chamber was<br />

filled to 70% of its total volume. A concentration of 0.2 weight percent of Irganox antioxidant<br />

supplied by CIBA was ad<strong>de</strong>d to the mixture to reduce the thermal oxidation of the components.<br />

All the blends were mixed for 8 min. After average 2 min mixing time the torque achieves a<br />

constant plateau value. After mixing, the samples were immediately cut from the mass and<br />

quenched in a cold water bath to freeze-in the morphology.<br />

HDPE<br />

In or<strong>de</strong>r to produce disk-shaped samples of 2.5cm diameter and 1.2mm thickness for<br />

conductivity testing, a hot press was employed. The press is heated to 200°C and the mould is<br />

PS<br />

PVDF<br />

PANI<br />

104

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