Thermally stable polypyrrole-Mn doped Fe(III) oxide nanocomposite sandwiched in graphene layer: Synthesis, characterization with tunable electrical conductivity

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 220, Issue , 2013, Pages 107-116

  Nandi, Debabrata ^a   Gupta, Kaushik ^a   Ghosh, Arup Kumar ^a   De, Amitabha ^b   Ray, Nihar Ranjan ^b   Ghosh, Uday Chand ^a  

^a PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

Conductivity; Graphene; Manganese doped iron(III)oxide; Nanocomposite; Polypyrrole

Indexed keywords

COMPACT STRUCTURES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GRAPHENE LAYERS; GRAPHENE OXIDES; HYBRID COMPOSITES; IRON(III) OXIDE; METAL OXIDE NANOPARTICLES; METAL OXIDES; MN-DOPED; NEGATIVELY CHARGED; OXIDE NANOPARTICLES; POLYPYRROLE (PPY); POSITIVELY CHARGED; PURE MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRONS; THERMALLY STABLE; TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; VARIABLE RANGE HOPPING MODEL;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYBRID MATERIALS; IRON COMPOUNDS; LOADING; MANGANESE; MANGANESE OXIDE; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; POLYPYRROLES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84873621932     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2012.11.139     Document Type: Article

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