Conductive poly(3-hexylthiophene) nanofibers and single crystals covered by coily dielectric oligomers and distinctions between their structures developed by self-seeding and isothermal approaches
Conductive poly(3-hexylthiophene) nanofibers and single crystals covered by coily dielectric oligomers and distinctions between their structures developed by self-seeding and isothermal approaches
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DOI:
10.1007/s13738-017-1239-1
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发表时间:
2018-02-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Abbasi, Farhang
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作者:
Agbolaghi, Samira;Zenoozi, Sahar;Abbasi, Farhang
Fuzzy nanofibers and single crystals developed using poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT)-block-coily oligomers were compared. Based on grazing wide angle X-ray scattering and selected area electron diffraction patterns, grown crystalline structures were mainly edge-on. P3HT fuzzy nanofibers and single crystals were covered by the dielectric coily blocks of polystyrene, poly(methyl methacrylate), and poly(ethylene glycol), leading to brush-like regions on surface of crystals in longitude of P3HT backbones. The atomic force microscopy demonstrated that the single crystals grown by self-seeding method were significantly longer (26-181 mu m) and thicker (59 nm-1.4 mu m) than the corresponding nanofibers (0.8-21 mu m in length and 1.5-23 nm in thickness). P3HT backbones were also more intimately stacked in single crystals in both hexyl side chains and pi-pi stacking directions, particularly in toluene (13.42-14.63 and 3.30-3.47 angstrom) than in nanofibers (15.03-16.17 and 3.51-3.67 angstrom). End coily blocks resulted in slightly higher layer spacings in both nanofibers and single crystals. Shorter P3HT chains were laminated on each other in single crystals; however, they were mostly extended in the nanofibers. Poorer solvents, lower crystallization temperatures, and shorter P3HT chains increased the backbone lamination in single crystals.