Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/poly(4-styrenesulfonate) microfibers

Effects of solvents on the morphology and conductivity of poly(3,4‐ethylenedioxythiophene):Poly(styrenesulfonate) nanofibers

“…The first weight loss between 30 and 120°C could be attributed to the desorption of physically adsorbed water. The second weight loss between 120 and 220°C is about the same for all samples and is due to decomposition of the doping material of PEDOT:PSS and side chain of PVA, however, the second weight loss starts at a lower temperature for nanofibers electrospun from spinning dope with EG. This difference may indicate the existence of the residual EG in the PEDOT:PSS nanofibrous mat.…”

Effect of Ethylene Glycol on Structure and Carrier Transport in Highly Conductive Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/poly(4-styrenesulfonate)

“…Poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) doped with poly(4-styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT/PSS), one of the most successful conducting polymers commercially available in the form of aqueous dispersion as colloidal particles, has superior mechanical properties, thermal stability, and high conductivity, which provides potential applications to electrical and optical devices such as transparent electrodes for touch panels and flexible displays [1,2], capacitors [3], microfibers [4][5][6], Shottky diodes [7], field-effect transistors [8][9][10], and actuators [11][12][13]. The resistance of the conductive polymer is, however, too high to fabricate a large-area electronic circuit due to the low electrical conductivity of the commercially available pristine PEDOT/PSS [4,13].…”

Morphology of electrodeposited poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/poly(4-styrene sulfonate) films

“…Compared with other conducting polymers, studies on morphologies of micro/ nano-structured PEDOT and its hybrids were very rare. Only a few researches on preparation of the PEDOT micro/nano-structures have been reported either by template assistance [13,16] or by wet-spinning technique [17,18]. Concerning the electrochemically prepared PEDOT films, only a few groups have studied the morphologies of them to date and most of the morphologies characterizations and analyses have been focused on polymer molecular structure influences [10], but regular micro/ nano-structures of electrodeposited PEDOT haven not been reported previously.…”