Synthesis and characterization of electrical conductivity of polymer Acrylonitrile Botadiene Styrene based nanocomposite by Brass alloy nano particles

In this paper, synthesis method of a polymer-based nano composite and use of brass nanoparticles are investigated. First, brass nanoparticles are produced by mechanical scratching and are characterized by AFM, DLS and XRD to investigate the size, distribution and phase of nano particles. Then, nanoparticles are added to ABS solved in chloroform to produce the mentioned nano composite. Next, the 4 probe point test is used to investigate the electrical conductivity of synthesized nano composite samples with different weight percentages of brass. Results show that electrical conductivity is increased by increasing of brass nano particle percentage, as electrical conductivity of the sample with 30 percent of brass reaches 1.8  105 S/m. Therefore, a polymer-based nano composite is synthesized which has many industrial applications.