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Therefore, it is of great significance to improve the solubility of MWNTs and endow them with new functions by chemical modification. In this work, MWNTs were in situ functionalized with poly[(1,4-diethynyl-benzene)-alt-(3-hexylthiophene)] (PDHT) via Sonogashira\u2013Hagihara polymerization. The obtained material PDHT-g-MWNTs was soluble in conventional organic solvents. By sandwiching a PDHT-g-MWNTs film between Al and ITO electrodes, the fabricated Al\/PDHT-g-MWNTs\/ITO electronic device exhibited nonvolatile rewritable memory behavior, with highly symmetrical turn-on\/off voltages, a retention time of over 104 s, and durability for 200 switching cycles. 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