Synthesis and characterization of P3HT metal nanoparticles hybrid junction

Abstract EN

Due to the important of potential properties of metal-semiconductor nanostructures, conductive Poly(3-hexylthiophene-2, 5-diyl) P3HT with (Al, Ag and Cu) as metallic nanoparticles (NPs) hybrid was synthesized.

Pulsed Laser Ablation (PLA) technique was used to synthesis the metallic nanoparticles in P3HT as a liquid.

The morphological and structural properties of pure P3HT and P3HT metallic nanoparticles samples were studied.

The Fourier Transformer Infrared (FTIR) for all samples indicate the chemical interaction between the polymer and the nanoparticles.

The formation of the nanoparticles was informed by Scanning Electron Microscopic (SEM) analysis and the particle size for nanoparticles was around 50 nm.

Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectra show the existing of metallic nanoparticles.

Hall effect showed the n-type conductivity for P3HT-ALNPs and P3HT-CuNPs samples while for P3HT-AgNPs was p-type conductivity which may be due to the differences of work function.