Magnetoresistive polyaniline-silicon carbide metacomposites: Plasma frequency determination and high magnetic field sensitivity

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Abstract

The Drude model modified by Debye relaxation time was introduced to determine the plasma frequency (ωp) in the surface initiated polymerization (SIP) synthesized β-silicon carbide (β-SiC)/polyaniline (PANI) metacomposites. The calculated plasma frequency for these metacomposites with different loadings of β-SiC nanoparticles was ranging from 6.11 × 104 to 1.53 × 105 rad s-1. The relationship between the negative permittivity and plasma frequency indicates the existence of switching frequency, at which the permittivity was changed from negative to positive. More interestingly, the synthesized non-magnetic metacomposites, observed to follow the 3-dimensional (3-D) Mott variable range hopping (VRH) electrical conduction mechanism, demonstrated high positive magnetoresistance (MR) values of up to 57.48% and high MR sensitivity at low magnetic field regimes.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

First Page

19536

Last Page

19543

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