%0 Journal Article %T Synthesis of a polyphenylacetylene/silica nanotube composite under high-temperature, high-pressure conditions %+ Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier - Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux de Montpellier (ICGM) %+ Istituto Nazionale di Ottica [Firenze] (INO-CNR) %+ Institute of High Pressure Physics [Warsaw] (IHPP) %+ Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C) %A Fabbiani, Marco %A Rouquette, Jerome %A Talbi, Gael %A Cambon, Martine %A Cambon, Olivier %A Santoro, Mario %A Konczewicz, Leszek %A Contreras, Sylvie %A Haines, Julien %< avec comité de lecture %Z L2C:22-024 %@ 0008-4042 %J Canadian Journal of Chemistry %I NRC Research Press %V 100 %N 3 %P 239-243 %8 2022-03 %D 2022 %R 10.1139/cjc-2021-0175 %K silica nanotubes %K polymer %K high pressure %K transmission electron microscopy %K Raman spectroscopy %Z Chemical SciencesJournal articles %X Phenylacetylene was inserted and polymerized in 5 nm diameter silica nanotubes under high pressure – high temperature conditions of 0.5 GPa and 437 K in an inert gas. The resulting nanocomposite was characterized by infrared and Raman spectroscopy and scanning and transmission electron microscopy. The vibrational spectroscopic data confirmed the formation of π-conjugated polyphenylacetylene and the absence of crystallization of the amorphous nanotubes. Scanning transmission electron microscopy coupled with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, STEM-EDX, measurements confirmed the insertion of the polymer in the channels of the nanotubes and electron diffraction confirmed the amorphous nature of both the polymer and the host SiO 2 nanotubes. The obtained nanocomposite is a candidate material for gas sensing applications. %G English %2 https://hal.umontpellier.fr/hal-03628395/document %2 https://hal.umontpellier.fr/hal-03628395/file/cjc-2021-0175_postprint.pdf %L hal-03628395 %U https://hal.umontpellier.fr/hal-03628395 %~ CNRS %~ ENSC-MONTPELLIER %~ ICG %~ L2C %~ INC-CNRS %~ CHIMIE %~ UNIV-MONTPELLIER %~ UM-2015-2021 %~ UM-EPE