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Fabrication and Optical Properties of Electrospun Organic Semiconductor Nanofibers from Blended Polymer Solution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011
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Ultrafine organic semiconductor fibers with the average diameters ranging in sub-micro-down to nanometers (43 nm - 1.7 µm) were fabricated by electrospinning of a mixture of poly(2-methoxy-5-(2′-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylene-vinylene) (MEH-PPV) and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) in various mixed solvents. The average diameter of the as-spun fibers decreased into nanometer scale with decreasing the concentration of PVP. Addition of a volatile organic salt (pyridinium formate, PF) or utilization of three-mixed solvent system was also effective to reduce the size of the diameter of as-spun fibers. After the removal of PVP from as-spun fibers by Soxhlet extraction, pure MEH-PPV fibers were obtained as a ribbon-like structure aligned with wrinkled surface in fiber direction. As-spun fibers showed relatively higher crystallinity, higher conjugation length, and a remarkable blue shift of photoluminescence (PL) peak was observed, in comparison with the cast film. The increase in composition of MEH-PPV and the removal of PVP from as-spun MEH-PPV/PVP fibers resulted in a significant blue-shift in UV-Vis absorption peak and red-shift in PL peak.
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