화학공학소재연구정보센터
Chemical Physics Letters, Vol.649, 53-59, 2016
Red-emitting pi-conjugated oligomers infused single-wall carbon nanotube sheets
We demonstrate the one-step thermal fusion and infusion of pyrene molecules inside single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). Despite the presence of metallic-SWCNTs, which behave as a quencher due to gapless electronic states, the nanohybrids consisting of pyrene and/or azupyrene oligomers infused SWCNT sheets exhibit red fluorescence by the ultraviolet, blue, and green light excitations. The wavelength-independent light-emitting behavior is explained by (1) infused PAH oligomers inside semiconducting-SWCNTs and (2) the peculiar pi-pi interaction through mixed pi-conjugated state between the pi-conjugated oligomers and non-armchair metallic-SWCNTs. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.