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ArticleACS applied polymer materials2026

Vapor-Phase Deposition of Electroactive Polymers onto Electrospun Commodity Polyacrylonitrile Nanofibers.

Shuvo Brahma, Scott L Barrett, Jennifer A Irvin, Tania Betancourt

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Article in ACS applied polymer materials, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Shuvo BrahmaMaterials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization Program, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666, United States.
Scott L BarrettMaterials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization Program, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666, United States.
Jennifer A IrvinCollege of Science and Engineering, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, Texas 77058, United States.
Tania BetancourtMaterials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization Program, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2460-6133

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Abstract

Electroactive polymers (EAPs) offer unique electrical and mechanical properties suitable for energy, environmental, and biomedical applications. Integrating EAPs with nanofibrous substrates can further enhance performance through the high surface area, interconnected porosity, mechanical flexibility, and tunable morphology of electrospun nanofibers. However, achieving uniform integration of EAPs on high-aspect-ratio nanofibers remains challenging due to poor coating homogeneity, limited penetration, and the reliance on toxic solvents in conventional deposition techniques. Here, a solvent-free vapor-phase deposition (VPD) process was developed to produce environmentally friendly and tunable EAP coatings on electrospun polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofibers. Electrospinning conditions were optimized to produce uniform PAN nanofibers with an average diameter of 350 nm. Poly-(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT), polypyrrole (PPy), poly-(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT), and poly-(2,2'-bithiophene) (PBTH) were deposited via oxidative vapor-phase polymerization using iron-(III) chloride (FeCl

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conductive nanofibersElectroactive polymerselectro spun nanofiber compositesolvent-free nanofiber coatingsvapor-phase deposition

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PMID42621527
PMCPMC13488273

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