Abstracts Book - IMRC 2018

• SB1-P018
SYNTHESIS AND INVESTIGATION PROPERTIES OF CITOSAN-
REDUCE GRAPHENE OXIDE NANOCOMPOSITES.
Diego Abraham Sanchez Pardo 1 , Yevgen Prokhorov 1 , Gabriel Luna Barcenas 2 , Reina Araceli
Mauricio 1 , Javier Villarreal Castellon 1
1
Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN - CINVESTAV, Materials, Mexico.
2 Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN - CINVESTAV, , Mexico.
Chitosan (CS) is a nature polysaccharide derived the incomplete deacetylation
of chitin. It has found widespread applications in sensors, electrolytes for fuel
cells, flexible organic electronics, medicines, etc. For many applications it is
important to have high conductivity material, but CS has low conductivity (about
10 -8 S/cm). For improve conductivity of CS in the literature have been proposed
to use reduce graphene oxide (rGO) which demonstrate high electronic,
mechanical, and thermal properties and can be obtained graphene oxide. The
graphene oxide is a well-dispersed homogeneous nanocomposites due to the
large oxygen functional groups which demonstrate interaction between them
and polymer matrix. In contrast rGO demonstrate bad dispersion and
agglomeration. In this work homogeneous chitosan-reduce graphene oxide (CSrGO)
films has been prepared by chemical reduction of graphene oxide in
chitosan solution with acetic acid (CH 3 COOH) and ascorbic acid (C6H8O6)
together with a heat treatment. Properties of films have been investigated using
UV – Vis, XRD, Raman and dielectric spectroscopy measurements.
Keywords: Chitosan, Graphene, Nanocomposite
Presenting authors email: diego.sanchez@cinvestav.mx