Microwave absorbing materials based on polyaniline composites: a review

Abstract

Abstract Conductive polymers are widely studied as microwave absorbing materials due to their light weight, corrosion resistance, good and flexible processibility and variability of conductivity. Among them, polyaniline (PANI) microwave absorbing materials have been studied most extensively because of their easier and inexpensive preparation methods, good environmental stability in both doped and undoped forms, excellent physical and chemical properties, high conductivity at microwave frequencies and unique doping mechanism with its ease of protonic acid doping in the emeraldine form. In this paper, the preparation and the microwave properties of PANI/inorganics composites and PANI/insulating polymer composites are thoroughly reported.