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• TITLE: Facile Synthesis of Polypyrrole/Titanate Core-Shell Nanorods and Their Electrorheological Characteristics

  AUTHORS: Jiexu Zhang, Ying He, Lijun Ji

  KEYWORDS: Polypyrrole, Titanate Nanorods, Conducting Composite, Electrorheological Fluid, Viscoelastic Properties

  JOURNAL NAME: Materials Sciences and Applications, Vol.2 No.2, February 25, 2011

  ABSTRACT: In this work, polypyrrole (PPy)/titanate (TN) composite nanorods were successfully synthesized using cetyl trimethyl-ammonium bromide (CTAB) as a structure-directing agent by in situ chemical oxidative polymerization. The structural characterization indicated that the new composite rods were core (TN)-shell (PPy) nanostructure with the average diameter in the range of 250-300 nm. Further, this semiconducting composite can be used as a dispersed phase in silicone oil for a new electrorheological (ER) fluid, and its ER behavior was investigated under steady and oscillatory shear. It was found that the PPy/TN fluid showed typical ER characteristics under an external electric field.