Preparation and Characterization of POAP/Fe2O3 Magnetic Nanocomposite in One-Step Method

In this paper, composite of poly ortho-aminophenol containing Fe2O3 with nanosize particles was synthesized by a simple and one-step method. The characteristics of products such as morphology, magnetic properties and electrical conductivity were studied. The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) studies indicated controllable morphology and the effect of the presence of Fe2O3 phase in the nanocomposit. The synthesized nanocomposite has good conductivity and magnetic properties, depended on the presence of iron oxide nanoparticles in the range of 30-60 nm. For the conducting nanocomposite the saturation magnetization (Ms) was 0.539 emu/g and the electrical conductivity was 0.37 S/cm, which are measured by vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) and four-probe technique, respectively.