Synthesis and characterization of poly p-PDA/SnO2 nanocomposites using chloro (glycinato)-(1, 10-phenanthroline) copper (II) monohydrate complex

A series of poly p-PDA/SnO2 nanocomposites with different p-PDA: SnO2 ratios were prepared by ‘in-situ’ deposition oxidative polymerization of paraphenylenediammine hydrochloride using Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as oxidant.Our main focus of the work was to use chloro (glycinato)-(1, 10-phenanthroline) copper (II) monohydrate complex as a catalyst to improve the yield of the reaction and results were quite promising. Physicochemical characterization was done using spectroscopic techniques such as FT-IR, XRD, TGA, SEM and I-V techniques. XRD results are indicative of the crystalline structure with long-range ordering of the nanocomposies.TGA results confirms the increase in the thermal stability due to the incorporation of SnO2 nanoparticles. Conductivity values obtained from I-V measurements, confirms the suitability of the nanocomposites for the use in the field of optoelectronics.