Stepwise Self-Assembly of P3HT/CdSe Hybrid Nanowires with Enhanced Photoconductivity

Jingjing Xu; Jianchen Hu; Xinfeng Liu; Xiaohui Qiu; Zhixiang Wei

doi:10.1002/marc.200900132

Stepwise Self-Assembly of P3HT/CdSe Hybrid Nanowires with Enhanced Photoconductivity

Macromol Rapid Commun. 2009 Aug 18;30(16):1419-23. doi: 10.1002/marc.200900132. Epub 2009 Jun 2.

Authors

Jingjing Xu¹, Jianchen Hu, Xinfeng Liu, Xiaohui Qiu, Zhixiang Wei

Affiliation

¹ National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China, Beijing 100190, P. R. China; Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, P. R. China.

PMID: 21638400
DOI: 10.1002/marc.200900132

Abstract

A facile approach to prepare poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT)/cadmium selenide quantum dot (CdSe QD) hybrid coaxial nanowires by a stepwise self-assembly process is reported. P3HT nanowires of ≈20 nm diameter are first prepared by self-assembly in a poor solvent such as cyclohexanone, and then as-prepared CdSe QDs are deposited compactly onto the P3HT nanowires by non-covalent interactions between P3HT and CdSe. When illuminated with white light, the hybrid nanowires show enhanced photoconductivity compared with the pristine P3HT nanowires and the blended nanocomposites.