Fabrication of free-standing PEDOT:PSS nanofiber mats using electrospinning

Author

Khanum, Khadija Kanwal ; Hegde, Shruti ; Ramamurthy, Praveen C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mater. Eng., Indian Inst. of Sci., Bangalore, India

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this work, a free-standing nanofibers mat of conducting polymer, Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) is fabricated. PEDOT:PSS solution is blended with widely studied water soluble polymers, poly vinyl alcohol (PVA) and poly ethylene oxide (PEO), and is electrospun. Electrospinning parameters such as applied voltage and flow rate are optimized and fibers of diameter 200-300 nm are obtained, as characterized by scanning electron microscopy. Further, ternary blends are prepared by increasing the PEDOT:PSS content with respect to PEO and PVA, and uniform fibers with diameter of less than 200 nm are obtained. Fiber mats are analyzed using contact angle measurement and change in hydrophilicity with respect to increase in PEDOT:PSS concentration is studied.

Keywords

conducting polymers; contact angle; electrospinning; hydrophilicity; nanofabrication; nanofibres; polymer fibres; scanning electron microscopy; PEO; PVA; conducting polymer; contact angle; electrospinning parameters; flow rate; free-standing PEDOT:PSS nanofiber mats; hydrophilicity; poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate; polyethylene oxide; polyvinyl alcohol; scanning electron microscopy; size 200 nm to 300 nm; ternary blends; Fabrication; Films; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Polymers; Radiofrequency identification; Conducting fibers; Electrospinning; PEDOT:PSS/PEO/PVA;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Electronics (ICEE), 2014 IEEE 2nd International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6527-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEmElec.2014.7151196

Filename

7151196