High Resolution Identification of Interface Structure of Conducting Polymer Trapping Carbon-based Nanomaterials.

The project is focused on high structural identification of interface properties among conducting polymer within carbon-based nanomaterials. One successful scheme is to form multicomponent assemblies of the polymer with well-dispersed band-gap nanoparticles interacting via chemical bonds, Van der Walls interactions, or wrapping and so on. Here, our typical composite systems are mainly based on nanodiamonds coated or decorated by conducting polymer in form of linear chains or globular aggregates. In multicomponent nanomaterials, chemical physics properties can be considerably affected by the interaction strength on the interface contact, and by the distribution and concentration of species trapped into polymers. Such composites have gained importance because they can be tuned to combine high electrical conductivity, which is characteristic of inorganic materials, with poor thermal conductivity, which is an inherent property of organic polymers. All these nanocomposites show improvement of electrical conductivity by incorporating nanodiamonds (NDs) in a conducting polymer matrix. As carbon-based nanomaterials are very stiff and tough, they also enhanced the mechanical strength of the polymer composites.