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Joint Conference
July 17-18, 2017 Chicago, USA
International Conference on
DIAMOND AND CARBON MATERIALS & GRAPHENE AND SEMICONDUCTORS
Volume 6, Issue 6 (Suppl)
J Material Sci Eng, an open access journal
ISSN: 2169-0022
Diamond and Carbon 2017 & Graphene 2017
July 17-18, 2017
Fabrication of electroactive nanofibers
Pinar Camurlu
and
Merih Zeynep Çetin
Akdeniz University, Turkey
E
lectroactive nanofibers, which are highly promising for sensor applications, have been receiving great attention due to
their high electrical conductivity, surface area and porosity. Electrospinning has become one of the leading approaches
for preparation of polymer nanofibers, owing to its superior attributes such as being simple, fast and relatively cheap. Focus of
this study is to develop electroactive nanofibers based on conducting polymers which contain carbon nanotube (CNT). The
electroactive nanofibers, whichwere constituted frompolyacrylonitrile (PAN), CNT and PEDOT, were fabricated by combining
electrospinning and chemical vapor polymerization methods. The nanofiber mats were prepared by electrospinning of a PAN
and CNT mixture in DMF. Later, these mats were subjected to chemical vapor polymerization of EDOT in the presence of
FeCl3. The resultant electroactive nanofibers were characterized by SEM, FTIR, CV and four point probe conductivity studies.
The collective results have shown that the prepared mats contain conducting, homogeneous, electroactive PEDOT coatings on
the surface of the PAN/CNT nanofibers, which are expected to be promising candidates for the fabrication of amperometric
biosensors.
Biography
Pinar Camurlu received her BSc (1999), MSc (2001) and PhD (2006) degrees from Department of Chemistry at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.
She has been working in Department of Chemistry at Akdeniz University (Antalya, Turkey), since 2007. Her research is focused on the design and synthesis of
functional conjugated polymers and their applications such as; electrochromic devices, light emitting diodes, biosensors. She has published more than 45 papers
in SCI journals and took part as a co-author for three international scientific book chapters.
pinarcamurlu@gmail.comPinar Camurlu et al., J Material Sci Eng 2017, 6:6(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2169-0022-C1-077