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Strong V, Wang Y, Patatanyan A, et al. Direct sub-micrometer patterning of nanostructured conducting polymer films via a low-energy infrared laser. Nano Lett. 2011;11(8):3128-35doi: 10.1021/nl2011593.
Strong, V., Wang, Y., Patatanyan, A., Whitten, P. G., Spinks, G. M., Wallace, G. G., & Kaner, R. B. (2011). Direct sub-micrometer patterning of nanostructured conducting polymer films via a low-energy infrared laser. Nano letters, 11(8), 3128-35. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl2011593
Strong, Veronica, et al. "Direct sub-micrometer patterning of nanostructured conducting polymer films via a low-energy infrared laser." Nano letters vol. 11,8 (2011): 3128-35. doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/nl2011593
Strong V, Wang Y, Patatanyan A, Whitten PG, Spinks GM, Wallace GG, Kaner RB. Direct sub-micrometer patterning of nanostructured conducting polymer films via a low-energy infrared laser. Nano Lett. 2011 Aug 10;11(8):3128-35. doi: 10.1021/nl2011593. Epub 2011 Jul 14. PMID: 21728294.
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Nano Lett. 2011 Aug 10;11(8):3128-35. doi: 10.1021/nl2011593. Epub 2011 Jul 14.

Direct sub-micrometer patterning of nanostructured conducting polymer films via a low-energy infrared laser.

Nano letters

Veronica Strong, Yue Wang, Ani Patatanyan, Philip G Whitten, Geoffrey M Spinks, Gordon G Wallace, Richard B Kaner

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.

PMID: 21728294 DOI: 10.1021/nl2011593

Abstract

Despite the many attractive properties of conjugated polymers, their practical applications are often limited by the lack of a simple, scalable, and nondisruptive patterning method. Here, a direct, scalable, high-resolution patterning technique for conducting polymers is demonstrated that does not involve photoresists, masks, or postprocessing treatment. Complex, well-defined patterns down to sub-micrometer scales can be created from nanofibrous films of a wide variety of conducting polymers by photothermally welding the nanofibers using a low-energy infrared laser. The welding depth, structural robustness, and optical properties of the films are readily controlled. In addition, the electrical properties such as conductivity can be precisely tuned over a 7-order of magnitude range, while maintaining the characteristic tunable electronic properties in the nonwelded polyaniline regions.

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