scholarly journals Role of Doping Agent Degree of Sulfonation and Casting Solvent on the Electrical Conductivity and Morphology of PEDOT:SPAES Thin Films

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 658
Author(s):  
Daniela Valeria Tomasino ◽  
Mario Wolf ◽  
Hermes Farina ◽  
Gianluca Chiarello ◽  
Armin Feldhoff ◽  
...  

Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) plays a key role in the field of electrically conducting materials, despite its poor solubility and processability. Various molecules and polymers carrying sulfonic groups can be used to enhance PEDOT’s electrical conductivity. Among all, sulfonated polyarylether sulfone (SPAES), prepared via homogenous synthesis with controlled degree of sulfonation (DS), is a very promising PEDOT doping agent. In this work, PEDOT was synthesized via high-concentration solvent-based emulsion polymerization using 1% w/w of SPAES with different DS as dopant. It was found that the PEDOT:SPAESs obtained have improved solubility in the chosen reaction solvents, i.e., N, N-dimethylformamide, dimethylacetamide, dimethyl sulfoxide, and N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone and, for the first time, the role of doping agent, DS and polymerization solvents were investigated analyzing the electrical properties of SPAESs and PEDOT:SPAES samples and studying the different morphology of PEDOT-based thin films. High DS of SPAES, i.e., 2.4 meq R-SO3−× g−1 of polymer, proved crucial in enhancing PEDOT’s electrical conductivity. Furthermore, the DMSO capability to favor PEDOT and SPAES chains rearrangement and interaction results in the formation of a polymer film with more homogenous morphology and higher conductivity than the ones prepared from DMAc, DMF, and NMP.

1996 ◽  
Vol 453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Kosacki ◽  
Harlan U. Anderson

AbstractThe results of structural and electrical measurements of nanocrystalline CeO2 thin films are presented. A correlation between the electrical conductivity and microstructure has been observed and discussed. The electrical properties of nanocrystalline CeO2 thin films are attributed to a dominant role of grain boundary phase.


2013 ◽  
Vol 393 ◽  
pp. 68-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Yusuf Zakaria ◽  
Hendra Suherman ◽  
Jaafar Sahari ◽  
Abu Bakar Sulong

Polymer composite has attracted many researchers from various field of application due to its unique features and properties including light weight, low cost, ease to process and shaping and corrosion resistant [1-3]. Fillers is typically added to enhance the chemical and physical properties of polymers [4, 5]. One of the properties is the electrical conductivity. Carbon based filler such as graphite (G), carbon black (CB), carbon fibers (CF) and carbon nanotubes (CNT) has been extensively used to improve electrical properties of polymer composite [6-8]. Electrical properties of the composite can be explained from percolation theory which means electrical percolation in mixtures of electrically conducting and non-conducting materials [9]. The concentration of conducting phase must above the critical value called percolation threshold, in order for the material become electrically conductive [10].


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Babu ◽  
K Mohanraj ◽  
S Chandrasekar ◽  
N Senthil Kumar ◽  
B Mohanbabu

CdHgTe thin films were grown onto glass substrate via the Chemical bath deposition technique. XRD results indicate that a CdHgTe formed with a cubic polycrystalline structure. The crystallinity of CdHgTe thin films is gradually deteriorate with increasing the gamma irradiation. EDS spectrums confirms the presence of Cd, Hg and Te elements. DC electrical conductivity results depicted the conductivity of CdHgTe increase with increasing a gamma ray dosage


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (94) ◽  
pp. 76783-76787 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. L. Wang ◽  
X. K. Ning ◽  
Z. J. Wang

Au–LaNiO3 (Au–LNO) nanocomposite films with 3.84 at% Au were firstly fabricated by one-step chemical solution deposition (CSD), and their electrical properties were investigated.


2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 1143-1146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Warzecha ◽  
Jesus Calvo-Castro ◽  
Alan R. Kennedy ◽  
Alisdair N. Macpherson ◽  
Kenneth Shankland ◽  
...  

Sensitive optical detection of nitroaromatic vapours with diketopyrrolopyrrole thin films is reported for the first time.


2002 ◽  
Vol 750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshifumi Aoi ◽  
Kojiro Ono ◽  
Kunio Sakurada ◽  
Eiji Kamijo

ABSTRACTAmorphous CNx thin films were deposited by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) combined with a nitrogen rf radical beam source which supplies active nitrogen species to the growing film surface. The deposited films were characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Raman scattering, and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Nitrogen content of the deposited films increased with increasing rf input power and N2 pressure in the PLD chamber. The maximum N/C ratio 0.23 was obtained at 400 W of rf input power and 1.3 Pa. XPS N 1s spectra shows the existence of several bonding structures in the deposited films. Electrical properties of the deposited films were investigated. The electrical conductivity decreased with increasing N/C atomic ratio. Temperature dependence of electrical conductivity measurements indicated that electronic conduction occurred by variable-range hopping between p electron localized states.


2015 ◽  
Vol 229 (7-8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérôme Delacotte ◽  
Dominique Langevin

AbstractThe role of condensed counterions in transport properties, such as electrical conductivity and viscosity, has been investigated with solutions of a flexible polyelectrolyte. Comparisons with existing theories are proposed. Viscosity is strongly affected by confinement in thin films, depending whether polyelectrolyte chains are adsorbed or not at the film surfaces. The role of counterion mobility is however difficult to assess because the measurements are not accurate enough. It is proposed that this role could be tested by electrical conductivity measurements.


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