Abstract
ABSTRACTCarbon nanotubes (CNT) / conjugated polymer composites have been used for the preparation of thin film-modified electrodes. Thin, short, multi-walled CNT (MWNT) (purity higher than 95%) was completely coated by regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) through precipitation of a mixture of both in the non-solvent methanol. This work reports the electrochemical and optical characterization of P3HT and composites after dissolution in xylene and spin casting of films with thickness <1 micrometer. Cyclic voltammetry showed that all samples were characterized by a semi-reversible behavior. The samples with 0% and 2% of MWNT, for instance, present anodic peak potential at +0.67 and +0.68V respectively when cycling at 100 mV/s. Optical properties, such as optical absorption and photoluminescence (PL), have been investigated. The samples showed maximum of absorption at ˜530 nm and intense PL in the orange. PL spectra of nanocomposites exhibited a new band at lower energy characteristic of a structure with higher conjugation length when compared to P3HT.
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