Morphological and conductivity studies of fullerene and N-vinyl carbazole based interpenetrating Polymer network

In the present study we have synthesized interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) of fullerene and N-vinyl carbazole (NVK). The IPN was characterized using infrared (IR) spectroscopy, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and conductivity techniques which reveals desirable and interesting results. IR spectroscopy reveals presence of fullerene at 527 cm − 1 and 1600 cm − 1 and poly (N-vinyl carbazole) at 1101 cm − 1 . A thin polymeric interconnected film is seen via SEM technique, revealing transparent and dual phase morphology. IPN was also analyzed for permeability and permittivity, which reveals maximum value of ε r ՛, ε r ՛՛ and tanδ ε at 2.77, 0.48 and 0.11 respectively and maximum values of µ՛ r of µ՛՛ r and tan µ r ranging from 0.99 to 1.50, 0.01–0.103 and 0.01–0.08 respectively. Moderate values of permeability and permittivity reveals electromagnetic property of the IPN. Conductivity IPN was calculated and found to be was found to be 4.98 S/m which describes the semi conducting nature of the polymeric network.