Structural, electrical and dielectric studies of nano-composite polymer blend electrolyte films based on (70–x) PVA–x PVP–NaI–SiO2

Abstract Nano-composite polymer electrolytes (NCPEs) films based on PVA-PVP-NaI-SiO 2 have been prepared using solution casting technique. Investigation of prepared films have been made using various experimental techniques like x-ray diffraction (XRD), attenuated total reflection–fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR), differential scanning calorimetric (DSC) and ac impedance spectroscopy. XRD determines the structural properties and shows the significant variation in the characteristic peaks related to semi-crystalline/amorphous phase of different PVA-PVP polymer blend ratio for fixed loading of NaI and SiO 2 . Complexation of PVA-PVP polymer blend with NaI and SiO 2 has been confirmed by ATR–FTIR analysis. Variation in glass transition temperature (T g ) and melting temperature (T m ) of PVA-PVP-NaI-SiO 2 NCPE system having various concentration of PVP were observed by DSC analysis. It has been observed that ac conductivity spectra strongly obeys the Jonscher's universal power law [ σ = σ d c + A f n ] with power exponent, n