Nanofibers from water solution blends of PVA/ODA–MMT and poly(maleic acid- alt -acrylic acid)

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PAPER • OPEN ACCESS Multifunctional electroactive electrospun nanofiber structures from water solution blends of PVA/ODA–MMT and poly(maleic acid-alt-acrylic acid): effects of Ag, organoclay, structural rearrangement and NaOH doping factors Murat Şimşek1, Zakir M O Rzayev2 and Ulviya Bunyatova3 Published 28 April 2016 • © 2016 Vietnam Academy of Science & Technology Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Volume 7, Number 2 Article PDF Figures References 449 Total downloads Turn on MathJax Share this article Article information Abstract Novel multifunctional colloidal polymer nanofiber electrolytes were fabricated by green reactive electrospinning nanotechnology from various water solution/dispersed blends of poly (vinyl alcohol-co-vinyl acetate) (PVA)/octadecyl amine-montmorillonite (ODA–MMT) as matrix polymer nanocomposite and poly(maleic acid-alt-acrylic acid) (poly(MAc-alt-AA) and/or its Ag-carrying complex as partner copolymers.

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This work presented a structural rearrangement of nanofiber mats by annealing via decarboxylation of anhydride units with the formation of new conjugated double bond sites onto partner copolymer main chains. It was also found that the semiconductor behaviors of nanofiber structures were essentially improved with increasing temperature and fraction of partner copolymers as well as presence of organoclay and AgNPs in nanofiber composite.