Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Uniform electroactive fibre-like micelle nanowires for organic electronics

  • Xiaoyu Li,
  • Piotr J. Wolanin,
  • Liam R. MacFarlane,
  • Robert L. Harniman,
  • Jieshu Qian,
  • Oliver E. C. Gould,
  • Thomas G. Dane,
  • John Rudin,
  • Martin J. Cryan,
  • Thomas Schmaltz,
  • Holger Frauenrath,
  • Mitchell A. Winnik,
  • Charl F. J. Faul,
  • Ian Manners

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15909
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The self-assembly of block copolymers to form micelles has been used in applications such as drug delivery and composite reinforcement. Here the authors explore the use of fibre-like micelles of controlled length in the active layer of field-effect transistor devices.