Directly Printed Embedded Metal Mesh for Flexible Transparent Electrode via Liquid Substrate Electric‐Field‐Driven Jet
Abstract Flexible transparent electrodes (FTEs) with embedded metal meshes play an indispensable role in many optoelectronic devices due to their excellent mechanical stability and environmental adaptability. However, low‐cost, simple, efficient, and environmental friendly integrated manufacturing o...
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| author | Zhenghao Li Hongke Li Xiaoyang Zhu Zilong Peng Guangming Zhang Jianjun Yang Fei Wang Yuan‐Fang Zhang Luanfa Sun Rui Wang Jinbao Zhang Zhongming Yang Hao Yi Hongbo Lan |
| author_facet | Zhenghao Li Hongke Li Xiaoyang Zhu Zilong Peng Guangming Zhang Jianjun Yang Fei Wang Yuan‐Fang Zhang Luanfa Sun Rui Wang Jinbao Zhang Zhongming Yang Hao Yi Hongbo Lan |
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| description | Abstract Flexible transparent electrodes (FTEs) with embedded metal meshes play an indispensable role in many optoelectronic devices due to their excellent mechanical stability and environmental adaptability. However, low‐cost, simple, efficient, and environmental friendly integrated manufacturing of high‐performance embedded metal meshes remains a huge challenge. Here, a facile and novel fabrication method is proposed for FTEs with an embedded metal mesh via liquid substrateelectric‐field‐driven microscale 3D printing process. This direct printing strategy avoids tedious processes and offers low‐cost and high‐volume production, enabling the fabrication of high‐resolution, high‐aspect ratio embedded metal meshes without sacrificing transparency. The final manufactured FTEs with 80 mm × 80 mm embedded metal mesh offers excellent optoelectronic performance with a sheet resistance (Rs) of 6 Ω sq−1 and a transmittance (T) of 85.79%. The embedded metal structure still has excellent mechanical stability and good environmental suitability under different harsh working conditions. The practical feasibility of the FTEs is successfully demonstrated with a thermally driven 4D printing structure and a resistive transparent strain sensor. This method can be used to manufacture large areas with facile, high‐efficiency, low‐cost, and high‐performance FTEs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cf804d75aa424e8fafab88a1ab2324d52022-12-22T03:34:13ZengWileyAdvanced Science2198-38442022-05-01914n/an/a10.1002/advs.202105331Directly Printed Embedded Metal Mesh for Flexible Transparent Electrode via Liquid Substrate Electric‐Field‐Driven JetZhenghao Li0Hongke Li1Xiaoyang Zhu2Zilong Peng3Guangming Zhang4Jianjun Yang5Fei Wang6Yuan‐Fang Zhang7Luanfa Sun8Rui Wang9Jinbao Zhang10Zhongming Yang11Hao Yi12Hongbo Lan13Shandong Engineering Research Center for Additive Manufacturing Qingdao University of Technology Qingdao 266520 ChinaShandong Engineering Research Center for Additive Manufacturing Qingdao University of Technology Qingdao 266520 ChinaShandong Engineering Research Center for Additive Manufacturing Qingdao University of Technology Qingdao 266520 ChinaShandong Engineering Research Center for Additive Manufacturing Qingdao University of Technology Qingdao 266520 ChinaShandong Engineering Research Center for Additive Manufacturing Qingdao University of Technology Qingdao 266520 ChinaShandong Engineering Research Center for Additive Manufacturing Qingdao University of Technology Qingdao 266520 ChinaShandong Engineering Research Center for Additive Manufacturing Qingdao University of Technology Qingdao 266520 ChinaShien‐Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering South China University of Technology Guangzhou 511442 ChinaShandong Engineering Research Center for Additive Manufacturing Qingdao University of Technology Qingdao 266520 ChinaShandong Engineering Research Center for Additive Manufacturing Qingdao University of Technology Qingdao 266520 ChinaShandong Engineering Research Center for Additive Manufacturing Qingdao University of Technology Qingdao 266520 ChinaSchool of Information Science and Engineering and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Technology and Application Shandong University Qingdao 266327 ChinaState Key Laboratory of Mechanical Transmission Chongqing University Chongqing 400044 ChinaShandong Engineering Research Center for Additive Manufacturing Qingdao University of Technology Qingdao 266520 ChinaAbstract Flexible transparent electrodes (FTEs) with embedded metal meshes play an indispensable role in many optoelectronic devices due to their excellent mechanical stability and environmental adaptability. However, low‐cost, simple, efficient, and environmental friendly integrated manufacturing of high‐performance embedded metal meshes remains a huge challenge. Here, a facile and novel fabrication method is proposed for FTEs with an embedded metal mesh via liquid substrateelectric‐field‐driven microscale 3D printing process. This direct printing strategy avoids tedious processes and offers low‐cost and high‐volume production, enabling the fabrication of high‐resolution, high‐aspect ratio embedded metal meshes without sacrificing transparency. The final manufactured FTEs with 80 mm × 80 mm embedded metal mesh offers excellent optoelectronic performance with a sheet resistance (Rs) of 6 Ω sq−1 and a transmittance (T) of 85.79%. The embedded metal structure still has excellent mechanical stability and good environmental suitability under different harsh working conditions. The practical feasibility of the FTEs is successfully demonstrated with a thermally driven 4D printing structure and a resistive transparent strain sensor. This method can be used to manufacture large areas with facile, high‐efficiency, low‐cost, and high‐performance FTEs.https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202105331electric field driven jetflexible transparent electrodesliquid substratemetal meshmicroscale 3D printing |
| spellingShingle | Zhenghao Li Hongke Li Xiaoyang Zhu Zilong Peng Guangming Zhang Jianjun Yang Fei Wang Yuan‐Fang Zhang Luanfa Sun Rui Wang Jinbao Zhang Zhongming Yang Hao Yi Hongbo Lan Directly Printed Embedded Metal Mesh for Flexible Transparent Electrode via Liquid Substrate Electric‐Field‐Driven Jet Advanced Science electric field driven jet flexible transparent electrodes liquid substrate metal mesh microscale 3D printing |
| title | Directly Printed Embedded Metal Mesh for Flexible Transparent Electrode via Liquid Substrate Electric‐Field‐Driven Jet |
| title_full | Directly Printed Embedded Metal Mesh for Flexible Transparent Electrode via Liquid Substrate Electric‐Field‐Driven Jet |
| title_fullStr | Directly Printed Embedded Metal Mesh for Flexible Transparent Electrode via Liquid Substrate Electric‐Field‐Driven Jet |
| title_full_unstemmed | Directly Printed Embedded Metal Mesh for Flexible Transparent Electrode via Liquid Substrate Electric‐Field‐Driven Jet |
| title_short | Directly Printed Embedded Metal Mesh for Flexible Transparent Electrode via Liquid Substrate Electric‐Field‐Driven Jet |
| title_sort | directly printed embedded metal mesh for flexible transparent electrode via liquid substrate electric field driven jet |
| topic | electric field driven jet flexible transparent electrodes liquid substrate metal mesh microscale 3D printing |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202105331 |
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