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Manufacturing and Morphological Analysis of Composite Material of Polystyrene Nanospheres or Cadmium Metal Nanoparticles
Bulletin of Chemical Reaction Engineering & Catalysis (2013)
  • Pratama Jujur Wibawa, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
  • Hashim Saim, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
  • Mohd Arif Agam, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
  • Hadi Nur, University Technology Malaysia
Abstract
A very simple nanocomposite material has been in-situ manufactured from an aqueous polystyrene nanospheres dispersion and cadmium (Cd) metal nanoparticles. The manufacturing was performed by using a high frequency of 40 kHz ultrasonic (US) agitation for 45 minute at atmospheric pressure and at room temperature 20 oC. No chemical reducing agent and surfactant added in this manufacturing technique due to the US could reduce Cd2+ ions of cadmium nitrate tetrahydrate to Cd atomic metals nanoparticles whereas water molecules could act as a pseudo stabilizer for the manufactured material. A thin film was manufactured from aqueous colloidal nanocomposite material of Polystyrene nanospheres/Cd metal nanoparticles (PSNs/CdMNp) fabricated on a hydrophilic silicon wafer. The thin film was then characterized by a JEOL-FESEM for its surface morphology characteristic and by ATR-FTIR spectrometry for its molecular change investigation. It could be clearly observed that surface morphology of the thin film material was not significantly changed under 633 nm wavelength continuous laser radiation exposure for 20 minute. In addition, its ATR-FTIR spectra of wave number peaks around 3400 cm-1 have been totally disappeared under the laser exposure whereas that at around 699 cm-1 and 668 cm-1 have not been significantly changed. The first phenomenon indicated that the hydrogen bond existed in PSNs/CdMNp material was collapsed by the laser exposure. The second phenomena indicated that the PSNs phenyl ring moiety was not totally destroyed under the laser exposure. It was suspected due to the existence of Cd nanoparticles covered throughout the spherical surface of PSNs/CdMNp material particles. Therefore a nice model of material structure of the mentioned PSNs/CdMNp nanocomposite material could be suggested in this research. It could be concluded that this research have been performed since the material structure model of the manufactured PSNs/CdMNp nanocomposite could be drawn and proposed. © 2013 BCREC UNDIP. All rights reserved. 
Keywords
  • Metals covered-polystyrenes,
  • Cadmium metal-covered polystyerene,
  • PSNs/Cd metal nanoparticles,
  • Polystyrene nanospheres (PSNs)-based composite
Publication Date
2013
Citation Information
Pratama Jujur Wibawa, Hashim Saim, Mohd Arif Agam and Hadi Nur. "Manufacturing and Morphological Analysis of Composite Material of Polystyrene Nanospheres or Cadmium Metal Nanoparticles" Bulletin of Chemical Reaction Engineering & Catalysis Vol. 7 Iss. 3 (2013) p. 224 - 232
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hadi_nur/114/