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Electrical Properties of Plasticised Proton Conducting MG49 Polymer Electrolyte

Zaidatul Salwa Mahmud, Siti Nor Hafiza Mohd Yusoff, Nur Hamizah Mohd Zaki, Mohamad Fariz Mohamad Taib, Mohamad Kamil Yaakob, Oskar Hasdinor Hassan and Ab Malik Marwan Ali

Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science, Volume 25, Issue S, March 2017

Keywords: Dielectric analysis, ionic conductivity, MG49, plasticised polymer electrolyte

Published on: 05 Dec 2017

A free-standing film consisting of 49% PMMA grafted-natural rubber electrolytes was prepared. Potassium hydroxide (KOH) and propylene carbonate (PC) was added to the preparation and the properties of the electrolytes measured using complex impedance analysis at various temperatures. The addition of plasticiser in alkaline polymer electrolyte gives rise to the ionic conductivity up to 2.647 x 10-6 S cm-1 at composition consisting of 50wt.% of PC. The dielectric properties of the GPEs were studied and the relaxations at higher frequencies appear in both imaginary and real part of the permittivity. These relaxations are related with the interface ion polarisations at the polymer-electrode interface and segmental motion of the polymer electrolyte molecular chains. The influence of the impedance spectra on temperature was studied. Results showed rising temperature increased conductivity, top frequency (f*), relative dielectric constant (er) and geometrical capacitance (Cg) due to the mobility of free ion carriers

ISSN 1511-3701

e-ISSN 2231-8542

Article ID

JST-S0187-2016

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