ACS applied materials & interfaces, volume 9, issue 50, pages 43838-43845
Ultrathin Polydiacetylene-Based Synergetic Composites with Plasmon-Enhanced Photoelectric Properties
Anastasiia L Dubas
1
,
Alexey Tameev
1
,
А. А. Ежов
2, 3
,
Vladimir K. Ivanov
4, 5
,
Burkhard König
6
,
Vladimir V. Arslanov
1
,
Oxana Gribkova
1
,
Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2017-12-05
Journal:
ACS applied materials & interfaces
scimago Q1
SJR: 2.058
CiteScore: 16.0
Impact factor: 8.3
ISSN: 19448244, 19448252
PubMed ID:
29185705
General Materials Science
Abstract
Fabricating plasmon-enhanced organic nanomaterials with technologically relevant supporting architectures on planar solids remains a challenging task in the chemistry of thin films and interfaces. In this work, we report a bottom-up assembly of ultrathin layered composites of conductive polymers with photophysical properties enhanced by gold nanoparticles. The polydiacetylene component was formed by photopolymerization of a catanionic mixture of pentacosadiynoic surfactants on a surface of citrate-stabilized gold hydrosol monitored by a fiber optic spectrometer. Microscopic examination of the 3 nm thick solid-immobilized film showed that gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) do not aggregate within the monolayer upon polymerization. This polydiacetylene/AuNPs monolayer was coupled with 60 nm thick polyaniline-based layer deposited atop. The resulting polymer composite with an integrated 4-stripe electric cell showed nonadditive electric behavior due to the formation of electron-hole pairs with increased charge carrier mobility at the interface between the polymer layers. Under visible light irradiation of the composite film, a plasmonic effect of the gold nanoparticles was observed at the onset of photoconductivity, although neither polydiacetylene nor the polyaniline component alone are photoconductive polymers. The results indicate that our bottom-up strategy can be expanded to design other plasmon-enhanced ultrathin polymer composites with potential applications in optoelectronics and photovoltaics.
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