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

Florian Massuyeau1( ), Yuanchun Zhao1, Abdel Aziz El Mel1, Abu Yaya1, Frédéric Geschier1, Eric Gautron1, Serge Lefrant1, Jean Yves Mevellec1, Chris Ewels1, Chain-Shu Hsu2, Eric Faulques1, Jany Wéry1, Jean Luc Duvail1( )
Institut des Matériaux Jean RouxelUMR6502 CNRS, Université de Nantes, 2 rue de la HoussinièreF-44322, NantesFrance
Department of Applied ChemistryChiao Tung University1001 Ta Hsueh RoadHsin-Chu30010Taiwan, China
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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.

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Tubular nanocompositessingle-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT)photoconductivitytransport propertiesconjugated polymerdensity functional theory (DFT) calculation

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Nano Research
Volume 6 Issue 2,
February 2013
Pages 149-158
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-013-0290-1
Cite this article:
Massuyeau F, Zhao Y, Aziz El Mel A, et al. Improved photoconductive properties of composite nanofibers based on aligned conjugated polymer and single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nano Research, 2013, 6(2): 149-158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-013-0290-1

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Received: 03 October 2012
Revised: 13 December 2012
Accepted: 28 December 2012
Published: 29 January 2013
© Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
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