Doctoral Researchers

Supervisors: Andreas Fery, Artur Erbe

Former research of fabrication of conductive assembly of metallic nanoparticles such as gold or silver nanoparticles largely relied on the sintering process, which became necessary in order to remove insulating (organic) stabilizers from the metallic nanoparticle surface.^1.2 This adds an energy-consuming step to the overall process and also leads to a loss of the potential for re-configurability. On the other hand, assembly of metallic nanoparticles have a potential to obtain anisotropic conductivity² while the organic shell may provide flexibility with regard to external stimuli such as bending or strain.^3,4 Therefore, the core-shell particles with conductive polymer shells and metallic nanoparticle cores provide tempting prospects for next-generation electronic materials.

In this work, I will synthesize core-shell particles with the gold nanoparticle cores and the polyaniline shells. Particles will be assembled as single lines using PDMS wrinkled templates. The electrical properties of single lines, especially charge transport mechanism, will be investigated in detail.

Fig 1. Core-shell nanoparticles of gold-polyaniline

Fig. 2. Scheme of confinement assembly (Reproduced from D. Schletz et al.⁵ (2021))

1. Colloids Surf. A Physicochem. Eng. Asp. 358, 35 (2010)
2. Nanoscale, 14, 14956 (2022)
3. Polym Int, 70, 437 (2021)
4. Sci Rep 7, 41981 (2017)
5. Optical Mater., 9, 2001983 (2021)