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Conductivity(S/cm)<br />

Ternary Blend<br />

1,0E-01<br />

Quaternary blend Quinary blend (Quaternary or Quinary blend)/Copolymer<br />

1,0E-02<br />

1,0E-03<br />

H<br />

G<br />

K<br />

J<br />

M<br />

L<br />

N<br />

O<br />

1,0E-04<br />

1,0E-05<br />

1,0E-06<br />

1,0E-07<br />

1,0E-08<br />

1,0E-09<br />

1,0E-10<br />

1,0E-11<br />

1,0E-12<br />

D<br />

C<br />

B<br />

A<br />

F<br />

E<br />

I<br />

129<br />

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55<br />

Volume Fraction of PANI(%)<br />

Figure 4-14. Conductivity of multi-percolated blends of ternary, quaternary, quinary, as well as<br />

interfacially modified quaternary and quinary systems as a function of the volume fraction of<br />

PANI. Note that point O is a co-continuous binary blend of PS and PANI.<br />

In Figure 4-14, samples A, B, C, and D represent ternary, quaternary, five-component, and sixcomponent<br />

polymer blends all containing five percent PANI. In all samples, the composition of<br />

all phases, other than PANI, have been selected to be in the multi-percolated region(Table 4-5).<br />

Sample (A) is a ternary blend of 5/45/50 PANI/PMMA/PS in which PMMA is at the interface.<br />

Due to the low amount of PANI (5%) in this sample, droplets of PANI are encapsulated by the<br />

PMMA phase. The very low conductivity value of almost 10 -11 S cm -1 indicates that no<br />

connected conductive pathway forms in this sample. In or<strong>de</strong>r to spread the PANI at least four<br />

components in the multi-percolated structure are required. In sample (B), five percent of PANI is<br />

present in a quaternary blend with a composition of 35/15/45/5 HDPE/PS/PVDF/PANI. In this<br />

blend, due to the geometrical restrictions imposed on PANI, a continuous PANI phase forms a

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