Fabrication of a Highly Transparent Conductive Thin Film from Polypyrrole/Poly(methyl methacrylate) Core/Shell Nanospheres
✍ Scribed by J. Jang; J. H. Oh
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 526 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1616-301X
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✦ Synopsis
Recently, we have successfully synthesized conducting-polymer nanoparticles with diameters of several nanometers by low-temperature microemulsion polymerization. [7] Microemulsion micelles could be utilized as ªnanoreactorsº for the synthesis of PPy nanoparticles. They could also play an important role in determining the spherical morphology of the final product. In addition, the crosslinked characteristic of PPy chains, resulting from an a±b coupling reaction, endows the polymer nanoparticles with mechanical robustness. Considering the feasibility that a highly transparent performance might be obtained if these conductive organic particles were effectively dispersed in a transparent medium, we were prompted to encapsulate the PPy nanoparticles with poly(methyl methacry-