Issue 23, 2013

Near-field electrospinning of light-emitting conjugated polymer nanofibers

Abstract

The authors report on the realization of ordered arrays of light-emitting conjugated polymer nanofibers by near-field electrospinning. The fibers, made from poly[2-methoxy-5-(2-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene], have diameters of a few hundreds of nanometers and their emission peaked at 560 nm. The observed blue-shift compared to the emission from reference films is attributed to different polymer packing in the nanostructures. Optical confinement in the fibers is also analyzed through self-waveguided emission. These results open interesting perspectives for the realization of complex and ordered architectures by light-emitting nanofibers, such as photonic circuits, and for the precise positioning and integration of conjugated polymer fibers into light-emitting devices.

Graphical abstract: Near-field electrospinning of light-emitting conjugated polymer nanofibers

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
15 Jun 2013
Accepted
15 Sep 2013
First published
10 Oct 2013
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Nanoscale, 2013,5, 11637-11642

Near-field electrospinning of light-emitting conjugated polymer nanofibers

D. Di Camillo, V. Fasano, F. Ruggieri, S. Santucci, L. Lozzi, A. Camposeo and D. Pisignano, Nanoscale, 2013, 5, 11637 DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03094F

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