Improved photoconductive properties of composite nanofibers based on aligned conjugated polymer and single-walled carbon nanotubes

Florian Massuyeau; Yuanchun Zhao; Abdel Aziz El Mel; Abu Yaya; Frédéric Geschier; Eric Gautron; Serge Lefrant; Jean Yves Mevellec; Chris Ewels; Chain Shu Hsu; Eric Faulques; Jany Wéry; Jean Luc Duvail

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Improved photoconductive properties of composite nanofibers based on aligned conjugated polymer and single-walled carbon nanotubes

Florian Massuyeau, Yuanchun Zhao, Abdel Aziz El Mel, Abu Yaya, Frédéric Geschier, Eric Gautron, Serge Lefrant, Jean Yves Mevellec, Chris Ewels, Chain Shu Hsu, Eric Faulques, Jany Wéry, Jean Luc Duvail

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We successfully address the challenge of aligning single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and conjugated polymer chains in composite nanofibers for enhancing their opto-electrical properties. A pore-filling template strategy has been developed to prepare such nanocomposites from SWNTs and poly(para-phenylene vinylene) (PPV) chains, with both species well-oriented aligned along the pore axis. Addition of the SWNTs leads to a remarkable increase in photocurrent of four orders of magnitude as compared to equivalent pristine PPV nanofibers. Further analysis indicates that the strong photocurrent enhancement is not simply an effect of alignment, but additionally benefits from alignment-enhanced interaction of polymer chains with SWNTs, as supported by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Graphical abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	149-158
Number of pages	10
Journal	Nano Research
Volume	6
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-013-0290-1
Publication status	Published - Feb 2013
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Tubular nanocomposites
conjugated polymer
density functional theory (DFT) calculation
photoconductivity
single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT)
transport properties

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Massuyeau, F., Zhao, Y., El Mel, A. A., Yaya, A., Geschier, F., Gautron, E., Lefrant, S., Mevellec, J. Y., Ewels, C., Hsu, C. S., Faulques, E., Wéry, J., & Duvail, J. L. (2013). Improved photoconductive properties of composite nanofibers based on aligned conjugated polymer and single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nano Research, 6(2), 149-158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-013-0290-1

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