Abstract
Poly(2-aminothiophenol) (P2ATH), poly(2-methylaniline) (P2MeANI), and poly(2ATH-co-2MeANI) are synthesized using ammonium persulfate as an oxidant in aqueous hydrochloric acid (HCl) medium at room temperature. The obtained polymeric samples are assembling on silver nanoparticles. The structures of prepared polymeric samples are characterized by ultraviolet-visible, infrared, proton nucleus magnetic resonance (
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H NMR), X-ray diffraction, electron microscope, transmittance electron microscope, and thermogravimetric analysis. The antibacterial efficiency of the prepared polymeric and polymer/Ag nanoparticle samples is studied for the removal of sulfate-reducing bacteria. The results reveal that the assembling of both P2ATH and P2MeANI on Ag nanoparticles enhances the antisulfate-reducing bacteria's efficiencies, but in a case of P2ATH-co-2MeANI the efficiency is more than its Ag nanoparticles.