Chiral induced synthesis of helical polypyrrole (PPy) nano-structures: a lightweight and high-performance material against electromagnetic pollution

• Published in: Journal of materials chemistry. C, Materials for optical and electronic devices Vol. 5; no. 8; pp. 2175 - 2181
• Main Authors: Xie, Aming, Wu, Fan, Jiang, Wanchun, Zhang, Kun, Sun, Mengxiao, Wang, Mingyang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Aircraft; Conducting polymers; Lightweight; Nanostructure; Networks; Polypyrroles; Synthesis; Weight reduction
• ISSN: 2050-7526; 2050-7534
• DOI: 10.1039/C6TC05057C

Helical conducting polymer nano-structures have attracted increasing attention because of their superior optical and electrical activities, lightweight, and flexibility as well as controllable morphologies at several levels of a hierarchy. Nevertheless, hardly any research has focused on helical conducting polymer nano-structure based electromagnetic protecting materials. Herein, we synthesized single-handed helical polypyrrole (PPy) nano-structures by a chiral inducing route and demonstrated their amazing electromagnetic protecting abilities. A gradually constructed conducting network and helical chirality may be the main reasons for the tunable and impressive electromagnetic protecting performance of the as-prepared helical PPy nano-structures. This research opens up an opportunity for the application of single-handed helical conducting polymer nano-structures as a lightweight and tunable high-performance electromagnetic protecting material, especially in the fields of special aircraft, aerospace and fast-growing next-generation flexible electronics.