Enhanced electrical conductivity of individual conducting polymer nanobelts

• Main Authors: Jiang, Lin, Sun, Yinghui, Peng, Haiyang, Li, Lain-Jong, Wu, Tao, Ma, Jan, Boey, Freddy Yin Chiang, Chen, Xiaodong, Chi, Lifeng
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Organic/Polymerelectronics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102011; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18884
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Afacile strategy for preparing 1D conducting polymer nanobelts with the width of the belts down to less than 50 nm is presented. Strong enhancement in the conductivity of individual polypyrrole (PPy) nanobelts is observed, due to lengthening of the π-conjugation length of PPy belts with decreasing b...