Nanostar and nanonetwork crystals fabricated by in situ nanoparticlization of fully conjugated polythiophene diblock copolymers

In-Hwan Lee; Pitchamuthu Amaladass; Ki-Young Yoon; Suyong Shin; Yong-Jae Kim; Inhye Kim; Eunji Lee; Tae-Lim Choi

doi:10.1021/ja409206p

Nanostar and nanonetwork crystals fabricated by in situ nanoparticlization of fully conjugated polythiophene diblock copolymers

J Am Chem Soc. 2013 Nov 27;135(47):17695-8. doi: 10.1021/ja409206p. Epub 2013 Nov 13.

Authors

In-Hwan Lee¹, Pitchamuthu Amaladass, Ki-Young Yoon, Suyong Shin, Yong-Jae Kim, Inhye Kim, Eunji Lee, Tae-Lim Choi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University , Seoul, 151-747, Korea.

PMID: 24224683
DOI: 10.1021/ja409206p

Abstract

Nanostar and nanonetwork crystals were prepared from fully conjugated poly(3-(2-ethylhexyl)thiophene)-block-polythiophene (P3EHT-b-PT) via a simple INCP process. The structural conformation of the nanocrystals was investigated in detail, revealing that with an increase in the block length of PT, the morphology of the nanocrystals changed from nanospheres to nanorods, nanostars, and to nanonetworks.