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A Technique to Functionalize and Self-assemble Macroscopic Nanoparticle-ligand Monolayer Films onto Template-free Substrates
Published on: May 9, 2014
Conducting film from graphite oxide nanoplatelets and poly(acrylic acid) by layer-by-layer self-assembly
Jihuai Wu1, Qunwei Tang, Hui Sun
1The Key Laboratory for Functional Materials of Fujian Higher Education, Institute of Material Physical Chemistry, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 362021, China. jhwu@hqu.edu.cn
Abstract:
A [poly(acrylic acid)/graphite oxide]n [(PAA/GO)(n)] film with a conductivity of 60 S.cm(-1) was grown layer-by-layer (LbL) using Langmuir-Blodgett self-assembly techniques. GO nanoplatelets were prepared from natural graphite by oxidizing, ball milling, exfoliating, and modifying with cationic surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB). The X-ray diffraction pattern reveals that PAA and GO stack orderly LbL and repeatedly in the (PAA/GO)(n) films, and about three carbon molecular layers are superposed on each GO sheet. Fourier transform infrared spectra offer evidence for the interaction between the carboxylic groups on PAA and the CTAB on the surface of the GO nanoplatelets. Electrochemistry measurements show that the conductivity of the (PAA/GO)(n) film depends on the carbon-carbon interlayer height of the GO sheet, and the (PAA/GO)(n) film has a typical positive temperature coefficient effect above the PAA melting temperature. The atomic force microscopy images reveal that CTAB molecules stack in a well-ordered head-to-head structure on both surfaces of the GO nanoplatelets and the GO nanoplatelets are embeded between PAA layers.
