Electropolymerization on wireless electrodes towards conducting polymer microfibre networks

Yuki Koizumi, Naoki Shida, Masato Ohira, Hiroki Nishiyama, Ikuyoshi Tomita and Shinsuke Inagi ()
Additional contact information
Yuki Koizumi: Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Naoki Shida: Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Masato Ohira: Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hiroki Nishiyama: Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Ikuyoshi Tomita: Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Shinsuke Inagi: Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Nature Communications, 2016, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-6

Abstract: Abstract Conducting polymers can be easily obtained by electrochemical oxidation of aromatic monomers on an electrode surface as a film state. To prepare conducting polymer fibres by electropolymerization, templates such as porous membranes are necessary in the conventional methods. Here we report the electropolymerization of 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene and its derivatives by alternating current (AC)-bipolar electrolysis. Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) derivatives were found to propagate as a fibre form from the ends of Au wires used as bipolar electrodes (BPEs) parallel to an external electric field, without the use of templates. The effects of applied frequency and of the solvent on the morphology, growth rate and degree of branching of these PEDOT fibres were investigated. In addition, a chain-growth model for the formation of conductive material networks was also demonstrated.

Date: 2016
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms10404 Abstract (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:natcom:v:7:y:2016:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms10404

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10404

Access Statistics for this article

Nature Communications is currently edited by Nathalie Le Bot, Enda Bergin and Fiona Gillespie

More articles in Nature Communications from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().