Thermal And Frequency Dependance Dielectric Properties Of Conducting Polymer/ Fly Ash Composites

With more than 100 million tonnes of fly ash produced in India, use of fly ash for the preparation of polyaniline – fly ash composites will in no way help in its bulk utilization. Still the authors have made an effort towards the better utility of fly ash by synthesizing polyaniline –fly ash composites for electronic devices where the requirement of dielectric materials with good electrical conductivity. There is great challenge to use the waste of thermal power stations in the form of fly ash as reinforcement for the conducting polymers to be good dielectric materials. In this paper, we report the use of fly ash to prepare conducting polymer composite materials. In-situ polymerization of aniline was carried out in the presence of fly ash (FA) to synthesize conducting polyaniline–fly ash composites (PANI-FA) by chemical oxidation method. The PANI-FA composites have been synthesized with various compositions (10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 wt %) of fly ash in conducting polymer matrix. The sur