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Ordered and Highly Conductive Carbon Nanotube Nano‐Networks in a Semiconducting Polymer Film by Solution Processing
Author(s) -
Boulanger Nicolas,
Barbero David R.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
advanced electronic materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.25
H-Index - 56
ISSN - 2199-160X
DOI - 10.1002/aelm.201400030
Subject(s) - carbon nanotube , materials science , polythiophene , nano , nanotechnology , nanoscopic scale , polymer , nanotube , conductive polymer , conductivity , electrical conductor , composite material , physics , quantum mechanics
Nano‐engineered nanoscale composites made from a polythiophene semiconducting polymer and single‐walled carbon nanotubes are demonstrated from solution at room temperature. This solvent method decreases bundling and produces well interconnected nanotube networks with a conductivity enhancement by more than two orders of magnitude compared to a random network, and by 4.5 times compared to a nano‐engineered composite processed at high temperature, even at low nanotube concentrations.