Integrating polymers with inorganic nanostructures is difficult due to wetting and surface energy considerations. In this paper, we developed an electropolymerization method to grow conformal polymers on high aspect ratio nanostructures. Our method is shown to improve the polymer filling rate inside the nanostructures and can be used in the development of efficient hybrid solar cells. As an exa...

The functionalities of conjugated polymers are determined not only by local molecular structure, but also by the mesoscale conformational and morphological states of the polymer chains. Simulation studies have successfully established the connections betweenmolecular structure and conformational states of certain conjugated polymers. However, experimental tools that can accurately discriminate ...

The disease-associated prion protein (PrP) forms aggregates which vary in structural conformation yet share an identical primary sequence. These variations in PrP conformation are believed to manifest in prion strains exhibiting distinctly different periods of disease incubation as well as regionally specific aggregate deposition within the brain. The anionic luminescent conjugated polythiophen...

A novel method for the step-growth polymerization of diphenyldithienothiophene in the presence of diphenyliodonium salt by photoinduced electron transfer is described.

We determined the surface-enhanced Raman scattering of the plasmonic hybrid nanotubes of fullerene C60-polythiophene-Ag or Au nanoparticles (NPs) which were synthesized via the template-based electrocopolymerization of terthiophene-linked fullerene C60 and terthiophene-modified Ag NPs or Au NPs using a nanoporous alumina membrane as the template. The combination of plasmonic activity and chemic...

Conducting polymers (CPs) are highly conjugated organic macromolecules, where the electrical charge is transported in intra- and inter-chain pathways. Polyacetylene, polythiophene its derivatives, polypyrrole polyaniline among best-known examples. These compounds have been used as electrode modifiers to gain sensitivity selectivity a large variety of analytical applications. This review, after ...