title: PEDOT/PSS-Halloysite Nanotubes (HNTs) Hybrid Films: Insulating HNTs Enhance Conductivity of the PEDOT/PSS Films.
abstract: We have for the first time found that completely insulating Halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) significantly enhance electrical conductivity of PEDOT/PSS films by simply mixing. Based on this accident finding we have created highly porous and conductive PEDOT/PSS films hybridized with the HNTs. Through further optimization of the mixing condition we have obtained flexible and conductive hybrid films with high specific surface area. Based on experimental evidences we proposed a plausible mechanism of the phenomenon where the PEDOT/PSS colloidal particle with particle size of several tens nanometers well pack at the nano-channels into well-ordered structures of PEDOT/PSS particles, which show conductivity as higher as several order of magnitude than that of PEDOT/PSS particles in outside of the HNTs.
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Road, Zhengzhou, China.
authors.forename: Hu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Road, Zhengzhou, China.
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Road, Zhengzhou, China.
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Road, Zhengzhou, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Li
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Road, Zhengzhou, China.
authors.forename: Ke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: School of Chemical Engineering and Energy, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Road, Zhengzhou, China.
authors.forename: Bing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhang