Effect of Copper Oxide Nanoparticles on Some Physical Properties of PS/PEO Polymer Blend

Abstract

In this research, an attempt is made to prepare an organic–inorganic hybrid material that aims to improve some of the physical properties of polymeric mixtures composed of polyethelyne oxide (PEO) and polystyrene (PS) by adding copper oxide (CuO) nanoparticles to the single polymers as well as by adding them to the mixture whereby 5% of nanoparticles were added to the polymer. The effect of the addition was studied by SEM and UV–Visible spectrophotometer. The energy band gaps attained by Tauc equation proved that the energy bandgaps are (from 4.4, 3.1 and 3.1[Formula: see text]eV) for nanocomposites.