Chiu P.L. – TechConnect Briefs

Improve Contacts in Carbon Nanotube Networks by In situ Polymerization of Thin Skin of Self-Doped Conducting Polymer

Ma Y., Cheung W., Wei D., Bogozi A., Chiu P.L., He H., Rutgers, US

Herein, we report the conductivity of SWNT networks can be dramatically improved by in-situ polymerization of a thin layer of self-doped conducting polymer around and along the carbon nanotubes. The formed conducting polymer improves the [...]

Conducting Polymer Nanocomposites: The Role of the Electronic Fingerprint of Carbon Nanotubes

Chiu P.L., Ma Y., Serrano A., Wang L., Mendelsohn R., He H., Rutgers University, US

In this presentation, we report that dispersion and functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with different dispersing methods and dispersing agents result different SWNTs with different electronic structures and surface chemistries. In-situ polymerization of the [...]

Water Soluble Conducting Polymer Nanocomposite: Toward Electronic Understanding the Catalytic Role of ss-DNA Functionalized Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Ma Y., Chiu P.L., Ali S.R., Serrano A., Chen A., He H., Rutgers University, US

Single-stranded DNA functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes (ss-DNA/SWNTs) act as catalytic molecular templates during oxidative polymerization of self-doped polyaniline. We found that not only was the polymerization rate greatly enhanced, but also the quality of the [...]