Electrical impedance and conduction mechanism analysis of biopolymer electrolytes based on methyl cellulose doped with ammonium iodide

Salleh, N.S. and Aziz, S.B. and Aspanut, Z. and Kadir, M.F.Z. (2016) Electrical impedance and conduction mechanism analysis of biopolymer electrolytes based on methyl cellulose doped with ammonium iodide. Ionics, 22 (11). pp. 2157-2167. ISSN 0947-7047, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-016-1731-0.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11581-016-1731-0

Abstract

In the present study, the potential of methyl cellulose (MC) as biopolymer electrolyte (BPE) will be studied extensively by means of conductivity and the conduction mechanism. BPE films based on MC doped with ammonium iodide (NH4I) salt were prepared by solution-casting method. X-ray diffraction (XRD) explains that the conductivity enhancement of the electrolytes is affected by the degree of crystallinity. Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) analysis shows the difference in the electrolyte’s surface with respect to NH4I. On addition of 40 wt.% of NH4I, the highest room temperature conductivity of (5.08 ± 0.04) × 10−4 S cm−1 was achieved. The temperature dependence relationship for the salted electrolyte was found to obey the Arrhenius rule where R2 ∼1 from which the activation energy (Ea) was evaluated. The dielectric study analyzed using complex permittivity ε* for the sample with the highest conductivity at elevated temperature shows a non- Debye behavior. These salted electrolytes follow the correlated barrier hopping (CBH) model.

Item Type: Article
Funders: University of Malaya: PPP grant (PG078-2015B) awarded
Uncontrolled Keywords: Methyl cellulose; Ammonium iodide; Conductivity; Conduction mechanism
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions: Faculty of Science
Depositing User: Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim
Date Deposited: 27 Sep 2017 02:27
Last Modified: 27 Sep 2017 02:27
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/17815

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