All-Polymer Conducting Fibers and 3D Prints via Melt Processing and Templated Polymerization.

ABSTRACT: Because of their attractive mechanical properties, conducting polymers are widely perceived as materials of choice for wearable electronics and electronic textiles. However, most state-of-the-art conducting polymers contain harmful dopants and are only processable from solution but not in bulk, restricting the design possibilities for applications that require conducting micro-to-millimeter scale structures, such as textile fibers or thermoelectric modules. In this work, we present a strategy based on melt processing that enables the fabrication of nonhazardous, all-polymer conducting bulk structures composed of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) polymerized within a Nafion template. Importantly, we employ classical polymer processing techniques including melt extrusion followed by f

SUBMITTER: Hofmann AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7033659 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature