Electric Modulus and Scaling of Chitosan/PVA Biopolymer Blend

Abstract

Dielectric measurements of chitosan/PVA polymer blends were performed at various temperatures in a wide frequency range. Higher values of / and // at higher temperatures and lower frequencies are correlated to interfacial polarization (IP) and DC conduction, respectively. Isochronal behavior of // against temperature revealed that chitosan and PVA is characterized by a dipolar relaxation peak at T= 393 K and 348 K, respectively. The activation energy (Ea) values of conduction have been estimated for all samples. Cole-Cole behavior revealed that, with increasing the temperature the semicircles area of the samples increased and the semicircle intercept are shifted towards higher value of / indicating that, the capacitance is increased. Complex electric modulus (M*) of all samples is investigated and it is found that, real part (M/) of the complex electric modulus showed nonlinear behavior with frequency, whereas, (M//), i.e., the imaginary part, is characterized by a relaxation peaks for all samples. The scaling behavior has been carried out at T= 333 K, as a representative temperature and it is found that, all the curves are overlapped leading to a master curve indicating that, dynamic process is temperature independent.