Abstract
O-aminophenol has extensive uses as a conducting material and in electrochemical devices. The objective of this research was to investigate the influence of biofield energy treatment on the physical thermal and spectral properties of o-aminophenol. The study was performed in two groups; the control group was remained as untreated, while the treated group was subjected to Mr. Trivedi’s biofield energy treatment. Subsequently, the control and treated o-aminophenol samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), surface area analysis, Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, and Ultra violet-visible spectroscopy analysis (UV-vis). The XRD analysis showed an increase in peak intensity of the treated o-aminophenol with respect to the control. Additionally, the crystallite size of the treated o-aminophenol was increased by 34.51% with respect to the control sample. DSC analysis showed a slight increase in the melting temperature of the treated sample as compared to the control. However, a significant increase in the latent heat of fusion was observed in the treated o-aminophenol by 162.24% with respect to the control. TGA analysis showed an increase in the maximum thermal decomposition temperature (Tmax) in treated o-aminophenol (178.17oC) with respect to the control (175oC). It may be inferred that the thermal stability of o-aminophenol increased after the biofield treatment. The surface area analysis using BET showed a substantial decrease in the surface area of the treated sample by 47.1% as compared to the control. The FT-IR analysis showed no changes in the absorption peaks of the treated sample with respect to the control. UV-visible analysis showed alteration in the absorption peaks i.e. 211→203 nm and 271→244 nm of the treated o-aminophenol as compared to the control. Overall, the results showed that the biofield treatment caused an alteration in the physical, thermal and spectral properties of the treated o-aminophenol.
Highlights
Conducting materials have received significant scientific and technological interest in recent years
The increase in the intensity of the X-ray diffraction (XRD) peak may be due to increase in a long-range symmetrical pattern of treated o-aminophenol molecules that lead to the enhanced crystallinity of the sample
It is hypothesized that biofield treatment may provide some thermal energy that possibly cause a reduction in dislocation density and increase in number of unit cell and crystallite size of the treated o-aminophenol as compared to the control
Summary
Conducting materials have received significant scientific and technological interest in recent years. Aminophenol based compounds are especially interesting as electrochemical materials since, unlike anilines [2] and other derivatives [3], they have two groups (-NH2 and –OH) which can be oxidized. They show excellent electrochemical nature similar to anilines [3,4] and phenols [5,6]. Some alternative strategy should be designed in order to improve the stability and thermal resistance of conducting organic materials. Biofield treatment was used as a strategy to alter the physicochemical properties of metals [12,13], ceramics [14] and organic product [15]. After considering the above-mentioned properties of o-aminophenol, authors planned to investigate the impact of biofield treatment on physical, thermal and spectral properties of o-aminophenol
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