Nanowire, polythiophene

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Figure 10.39 An optical micrograph of a wire grown from aqueous EDOT/PSS solution. Inset a scanning electron micrograph of a PEDOT nanowire. The scale bars represent 10 pm except for those in the insets, which denote 500 nm. (Reprinted with permission from Applied Physics Letters, Directional growth of polypyrrole and polythiophene wires by P. S. Thapa, D.J. Yu,J. P. Wicksted eta ., 94, 3 (2009) American Institute of Physics)...

A.E. Briseno, et al, Oligo- and polythiophene/ZnO hybrid nanowire solar cells. Nano Letters, 2010. 10(1) p. 334-340. 

A site-specific electrochemical method for the fabrication of polypyrrole, polyaniline, and a derivate of polythiophene nanowire frameworks on microelectrode junctions (Alam et al. 2005). 

Qiu L, Lee WH, Wang X, Kim JS, Lim JA, Kwak D, Lee S, Cho K (2009) Organic thin-fihn transistors based on polythiophene nanowires embedded in insulating polymer. Adv Mater 21 1349-1353... 

Chen X, Chen L, Yao K, Chen Y. Self-assembly of diblock polythiophenes with discotic liquid crystals on side chains for the formation of a highly ordered nanowire morphology. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2013 5 8321-8. 

Furthermore, we extend the system to a more realistic nanowire complex shown below in which the polyacetylene of above example was replaced by head-to-tail coupled polythiophene derivatives—[oligo(2,5-thienylene-ethynylene)-](OTE)-terminated by the same fullerene and H2TPP. The OTE wire part is a class of conjugated oligomers with a high shape-persistence as rigid rods and special attention is focused on the systems with terminal donor-acceptor substitution because of a strong push-pull effect [57-59]. 

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