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Three different solvents for the core polymer, including chloroform, chlorobenzene and 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene, were employed to manipulate the morphologies and electrical properties of P3HT electrospun nanofibers. Through the analyses from dynamic light scattering of P3HT solutions, polarized photoluminescence and X-ray diffraction pattern of P3HT electrospun nanofibers, it is revealed that the P3HT electrospun nanofiber prepared from the chloroform system displays a low crystallinity but highly oriented crystalline grains due to the dominant population of isolated-chain species in solution that greatly facilitates P3HT chain stretching during electrospinning. The resulting high charge-carrier mobility of 3.57 \u00d7 10\u22121 cm2\u00b7V\u22121\u00b7s\u22121 and decent mechanical deformation up to a strain of 80% make the P3HT electrospun nanofiber a promising means for fabricating stretchable optoelectronic devices.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/polym11091501","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,16]],"date-time":"2019-09-16T03:17:57Z","timestamp":1568603877000},"page":"1501","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["Solvent Effects on Morphology and Electrical Properties of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Electrospun Nanofibers"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5746-2885","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jung-Yao","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi 62102, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chien-You","family":"Su","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi 62102, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chau-Hsien","family":"Hsu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi 62102, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yi-Hua","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi 62102, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qin-Cheng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi 62102, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chia-Ling","family":"Chang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi 62102, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3398-2576","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chi-Chung","family":"Hua","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi 62102, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wen-Chang","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department and f Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Klauk, H. 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