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A Hybrid Material of Graphene and Poly (3, 4-ethyldioxythiophene) with High Conductivity, Flexibility, and Transparency

Show Author's Information Yanfei Xu,  Yan Wang,  Jiajie Liang,  Yi Huang,  Yanfeng Ma,  Xiangjian Wan,  Yongsheng Chen( )
Key Laboratory for Functional Polymer Materials and Centre for Nanoscale Science and TechnologyInstitute of Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai UniversityTianjin300071China
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stability, conductivity, flexibility, Graphene–poly (3, 4-ethyldioxythiophene) (PEDOT) optical transparency
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Xu Y, Wang Y, Liang J, et al. A Hybrid Material of Graphene and Poly (3, 4-ethyldioxythiophene) with High Conductivity, Flexibility, and Transparency. Nano Research, 2009, 2(4): 343-348. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-009-9032-9
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A novel hybrid material prepared from graphene and poly (3, 4-ethyldioxythiophene) (PEDOT) shows excellent transparency, electrical conductivity, and good flexibility, together with high thermal stability and is easily processed in both water and organic solvents. Conductivities of the order of 0.2 S/cm and light transmittance of greater than 80% in the 400–1800 nm wavelength range were observed for films with thickness of tens of nm. Practical applications in a variety of optoelectronic devices are thus expected for this transparent and flexible conducting graphene-based hybrid material.


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A Hybrid Material of Graphene and Poly (3, 4-ethyldioxythiophene) with High Conductivity, Flexibility, and Transparency

Show Author's information Yanfei Xu, Yan Wang, Jiajie Liang, Yi Huang, Yanfeng Ma, Xiangjian Wan, Yongsheng Chen( )
Key Laboratory for Functional Polymer Materials and Centre for Nanoscale Science and TechnologyInstitute of Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai UniversityTianjin300071China

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A novel hybrid material prepared from graphene and poly (3, 4-ethyldioxythiophene) (PEDOT) shows excellent transparency, electrical conductivity, and good flexibility, together with high thermal stability and is easily processed in both water and organic solvents. Conductivities of the order of 0.2 S/cm and light transmittance of greater than 80% in the 400–1800 nm wavelength range were observed for films with thickness of tens of nm. Practical applications in a variety of optoelectronic devices are thus expected for this transparent and flexible conducting graphene-based hybrid material.

Keywords: stability, conductivity, flexibility, Graphene–poly (3, 4-ethyldioxythiophene) (PEDOT) optical transparency

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Received: 24 January 2009
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Published: 01 April 2009
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Natural Science Foundation of china (NSFC) (#20774047), the Ministry of Science and Techology of china (MoST) (#2006CB932702), and natural Science Foundation (NSF) of Tianjin City (#07JCYBJC03000, #08JCZDJC25300).

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