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Nanoscale

Conductance measurements of individual polypyrrole nanobelts

C. Hentschel,abc   L. Jiang,*a   D. Ebeling,d   J. C. Zhang,a   X. D. Chene  and  L. F. Chi*abc  

* Corresponding authors

a Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) & Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University, 199 Ren-Ai Road, Suzhou Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China
E-mail: ljiang@suda.edu.cn, chilf@suda.edu.cn

b Physikalisches Institut, Universität Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, 48149 Münster, Germany

c Center for NanoTechnology (CeNTech), Heisenbergstraße 11, 48149 Münster, Germany

d Institute of Applied Physics (IAP), Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany

e School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore

Abstract

We present here a study on the electrical conduction properties of individual polypyrrole nanobelts by using conductive atomic force microscopy and discuss a general effect while probing soft materials. A length-dependent analysis demonstrates that the tip could induce local defects into the polymer structure and, thus diminishes the electrical conduction.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4NR06785A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
17 Nov 2014
Accepted
05 Jan 2015
First published
06 Jan 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Nanoscale, 2015,7, 2301-2305

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Conductance measurements of individual polypyrrole nanobelts

C. Hentschel, L. Jiang, D. Ebeling, J. C. Zhang, X. D. Chen and L. F. Chi, Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 2301 DOI: 10.1039/C4NR06785A

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