Facile growth of heparin-controlled porous polyaniline nanofiber networks and their application in supercapacitors
By Sk, Md Moniruzzaman; Yue, Chee Yoon & Jena, Rajeeb Kumar
Published in RSC Adv.
The Royal Society of Chemistry
2014
Abstract
Herein, we present the synthesis of porous polyaniline (PANI) nanofiber networks by a chemical oxidative polymerization method using a biomolecule, heparin. Long uniform nanofibers were formed when the weight ratio of heparin to aniline was 0.25 (PANIH-0.25), where the average nanofiber diameter was about 80-110 nm. No such PANI nanofibers were formed at other weight ratios. A comparison of the morphology of PANIH-0.25 was made with the pure PANI which was synthesized without any template. We further studied the potential of PANIH-0.25 as a nanostructured electrode material for the supercapacitor applications. The PANIH-0.25 nanofiber electrode yielded a six-fold improvement in specific capacitance when compared with pure PANI. The PANIH-0.25 electrode exhibited a specific capacitance of 732.18 +/- 24.1 F g-1 and a longer cycle life with the capacitance retention of 72.28% after 1000 cycles. The observed capacitance was elucidated and justified based on theoretical considerations.
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