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JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
卷 15, 期 12, 页码 9975-9981出版社
AMER SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2015.11708
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Polypyrrole Nanotubes; Metallic Conductivity; Power Law; Wall Thickness
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- UGC
True metallic conductivity in conjugated polymers has been major challenge for the last few years. Heeger and co-workers have reported metallic conductivity in bulk polyaniline film, but the problem of metallic transport in their nanophase still remains unexplored. In the recent past, our group had observed metallic conductivity in single nanotube by studying I-V characteristics using Atomic Force Microscopy. In the present work, Polypyrrole (PPy) nanotubes with variable wall thickness have been synthesized by chemical route. Electrical measurements-current-voltage characteristics as well as variation of resistance over the temperature range from 12 K to 300 K for these nanotubes with variable wall thickness, have also been carried out. The conductivity varies widely from semiconductor to metallic as the wall thickness decreases. Transmission Electron Microscopic study, further, confirms that very aligned and ordered polymer chains are formed due to directional growth in thin walled polypyrrole nanotubes, results in true metallic conductivity with a positive temperature coefficient of resistance over the whole temperature range. To the best of our knowledge, there is no such systematic study reported so far which embraces variation of charge transport characteristics with varying wall thickness of conjugated polymer nanotubes involving both I-V and R-T measurements supplementing each other, which being the main focus of this communication.
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