Fabrication of poly-3-hexylthiophene/polyethylene oxide nanofibers using electrospinning

Abstract

P3HT-PEO blend nanofibers were produced by electrospinning from chloroform solutions. A morphological study was carried out as a function of the processing parameters as well as the ratio between the two polymers. The fibers containing at least 60 wt.% of P3HT presented striated surfaces that could be explained by the alignment of the polymer domains along the fiber axis. The structural arrangement of the polymers was found to vary according to the polymers relative contents. The maximum electrical conductivity found for unaligned mats was 0.16 S/cm and increased to 0.3 S/cm when the nanofibers were aligned along a preferential direction.Crown

Production of Conductive PEDOT Nanofibers by the Combination of Electrospinning and Vapor-Phase Polymerization

“…21 The porosity of the fiber mats prepared in this study was estimated to be 80 ± 5 % by simple weighting experiment, using a density of 1.6 g.cm -3 for tosylate-doped PEDOT. 52 By taking into account that the PEDOT nanofibers themselves represent only ~ 20 % of the sample volume, it can be estimated that individual fibers should have conductivities around 300 S/cm.…”

All-textile flexible supercapacitors using electrospun poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) nanofibers

“…Moreover, giving that the porosity of the mats is around 80% (i.e. the material represents only 20% of the volume), and that the conductivity measurement does not take into account the porosity of the sample, the conductivity of single fibers can be estimated to be around 300 S cm −1 [25].…”

Electrospun Polyaniline-Based Composite Nanofibers: Tuning the Electrical Conductivity by Tailoring the Structure of Thiol-Protected Metal Nanoparticles

“…The materials had the typical electrospun mat structure where the nanofibers are in contact with each other forming a three-dimensional network. The blend fiber surfaces were quite smooth when compared with typical conjugated polymer/PEO nanofibers, which often show a textured surface [32]. Nanocomposite fiber morphology appeared to be unaffected by the presence of nanofillers, which do not induce the formation of beads or blobs into the mat structure.…”