Conducting polymer nanowire electrode

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Figure 14.1 Template-directed synthesis of conducting-polymer nanowires. Nanowires of PPy were synthesised by electropolymerization within an alumina template structure with a gold electrode base (A,B). Nanowires could be further functionalized by the growth of additional species such as nickel and gold (C). (Reprinted with permission from Electroanalysis, Magnetically Assembled Multisegmented Nanowires and Their Applications by M. A. Bangar, C. M. Hangarter, B. Yoo et al., 21, 1, 61-67. Copyright (2009) Wiley-VCH)...

The same galvanostatic template free, site-specific electrochemical method was developed to precisely fabricate individual and addressable conducting polymer nanowires on electrode junctions in a parallel-oriented array [123]. 

Wang K, Zhao P, Zhou X, Wu H, Wei Z (2011) Flexible supercapacitors based on cloth-supported electrodes of conducting polymer nanowire array/SWCNT composites. J Mater Chem 21 16373-16378... 

Electrospun nanofibers with electrical and electro-optical activities have received a great deal of interest in recent years because of their potential applications in nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic devices, for example nanowires, LEDs, photocells etc. Besides, one-dimensional (1-D) nanostmctures are the smallest dimensional stmctures for efficient transport of electrons and optical excitations. One of the potential future apphcations of conducting polymer nanofibers is as molecular wires, which are required to connect molecular devices to electrodes. For molecular devices, it is necessary to make nanowires with diameters in the order of the size of the molecular device. 

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