Authors
Nasim Zarrin, Hossein Tavanai, Amir Abdolmaleki, Mehdi Bazarganipour, Farzaneh Alihosseini
Publication date
2018/10/1
Journal
Synthetic Metals
Volume
244
Pages
143-149
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
This article reports on the possibility of the fabrication of conductive PEDOT (3,4 poly ethylene dioxythiophene) nanofibers through electrospinning. Electrospinning of pure PEDOT nanofibers from its solution has not yet become possible. Also in this work, the efforts to electrospin pure PEDOT or pure EDOT nanofibers proved fruitless. Hence, poly(acrylic acid) (PAA)was employed to assist the electrospinning of EDOT. EDOT:PAA nanofibers were collected in an oxidation bath, where in-situ polymerization of EDOT into PEDOT occurred. After a series of experiments, PEDOT/PAA (50:50) and PEDOT/PAA (67:33) nanofibers were successfully fabricated. The lowest average diameter of the PEDOT/PAA nanofibers was around 300 nm. An electrical conductivity of 0.16 S/cm was recorded for the PEDOT/PAA (50:50) nanofibrous web which is a considerable improvement over similar products reported in the literature. X …
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