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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2011
David Bruce Geohegan, Knoxville, TN (US);
Ilia N. Ivanov, Knoxville, TN (US);
Alexander A. Puretzky, Knoxville, TN (US);
Stephen Jesse, Knoxville, TN (US);
Bin HU, Knoxville, TN (US);
Matthew Garrett, Sandston, VA (US);
Bin Zhao, Easley, SC (US);
David Bruce Geohegan, Knoxville, TN (US);
Ilia N. Ivanov, Knoxville, TN (US);
Alexander A. Puretzky, Knoxville, TN (US);
Stephen Jesse, Knoxville, TN (US);
Bin Hu, Knoxville, TN (US);
Matthew Garrett, Sandston, VA (US);
Bin Zhao, Easley, SC (US);
UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
University of Tennessee Research Foundation, Knoxville, TN (US);
Abstract
The present invention, in one embodiment, provides a method of forming an organic electric device that includes providing a plurality of carbon nanostructures; and dispersing the plurality of carbon nanostructures in a polymeric matrix to provide a polymeric composite, wherein when the plurality of carbon nanostructures are present at a first concentration an interface of the plurality of carbon nanostructures and the polymeric matrix is characterized by charge transport when an external energy is applied, and when the plurality of carbon nanostructures are present at a second concentration the interface of the plurality of carbon nanostructures and the polymeric matrix are characterized by exciton dissociation when an external energy is applied, wherein the first concentration is less than the second concentration.