Fabrication of ordered honeycomb porous poly(vinyl chloride) thin film doped with a Schiff base and nickel(II) chloride

Hassan Hashim; Gamal A El-Hiti; Mohammad Hayal Alotaibi; Dina S Ahmed; Emad Yousif

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00743

Fabrication of ordered honeycomb porous poly(vinyl chloride) thin film doped with a Schiff base and nickel(II) chloride

Heliyon. 2018 Aug 18;4(8):e00743. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00743. eCollection 2018 Aug.

Authors

Hassan Hashim¹, Gamal A El-Hiti², Mohammad Hayal Alotaibi³, Dina S Ahmed⁴, Emad Yousif⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, College of Science, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq.
² Department of Optometry, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 10219, Riyadh 11433, Saudi Arabia.
³ National Center for Petrochemicals Technology, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, P.O. Box 6086, Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad 64021, Iraq.

Abstract

A modified poly(vinyl chloride) honeycomb thin film containing a low concentration of a thiadiazole Schiff base and nickel(II) chloride was successfully fabricated using the casting process. The surface morphology of the synthesized thin film was investigated using the scanning electronic microscopy. The synthesized poly(vinyl chloride) thin film was found to have a homogeneous surface morphology with a high crystalline nature. The addition of nickel(II) chloride was discovered to be vital for the formation of the honeycomb like structure.

Keywords: Materials chemistry.