New Method for Producing Flexible Conducting Polymer and Polymer Nanocomposite Films

Competitive Advantages

  •     Large scale applications
  •     Ease of Synthesis
  •     Excellent environmental stability

Summary

Our researchers have fabricated highly transparent conducting thin and thick PANI(polyaniline) using this methodology. In turn, they also fabricated a supercapacitor with a specific capacitance of 300 F/gm using the G-PANI (Graphene polyaniline) film. Our method could be used to fabricate free standing, highly con-ducting polymers, like polyaniline (PANI), polythiophene (PTh), pol-yethylenedioxythiophene (PEDOT), or polymer composites (PANI-G, PTh-carbon nanotube, PEDOT-G, PANI–tin oxide (SnO2), PANI–WO3 (Tungsten oxide), PANI–Fe2O3 (iron oxide) etc.) for different appli-cations, like supercapacitor, photovoltaic, microelectronics, sensor, and memory devices. 

G– PANI film on a plastic substrate 

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Patent Information:
Title App Type Country Serial No. Patent No. File Date Issued Date Expire Date
Conducting Films and Methods for Forming Them Utility United States 14/919,971 10,854,352 10/22/2015 12/1/2020 4/15/2037