A deformable and highly robust ethyl cellulose transparent conductor with a scalable silver nanowires bundle micromesh
Huge challenges remain regarding the facile fabrication of neat metallic nanowires mesh for high-quality transparent conductors (TCs). Here, a scalable metallic nanowires bundle micromesh is achieved readily by a spray-assisted self-assembly process, resulting in a conducting mesh with controllable...
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| author | Xiong, Jiaqing Li, Shaohui Ye, Yiyang Wang, Jiangxin Qian, Kai Cui, Peng Gao, Dace Lin, Meng-Fang Chen, Tupei Lee, Pooi See |
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| author_facet | School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Xiong, Jiaqing Li, Shaohui Ye, Yiyang Wang, Jiangxin Qian, Kai Cui, Peng Gao, Dace Lin, Meng-Fang Chen, Tupei Lee, Pooi See |
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| description | Huge challenges remain regarding the facile fabrication of neat metallic nanowires mesh for high-quality transparent conductors (TCs). Here, a scalable metallic nanowires bundle micromesh is achieved readily by a spray-assisted self-assembly process, resulting in a conducting mesh with controllable ring size (4-45 µm) that can be easily realized on optional polymer substrates, rendering it transferable to various deformable and transparent substrates. The resultant conductors with the embedded nanowires bundle micromesh deliver superior and customizable optoelectronic performances, and can sustain various mechanical deformations, environmental exposure, and severe washing, exhibiting feasibility for large-scale manufacturing. The silver nanowires bundle micromesh with explicit conductive paths is embedded into an ethyl cellulose (EC) transparent substrate to achieve superior optoelectronic properties endowed by a low amount of incorporated nanowires, which leads to reduced extinction cross-section as verified by optical simulation. A representative EC conductor with a low sheet resistance of 25 Ω □-1 , ultrahigh transmittance of 97%, and low haze of 2.6% is attained, with extreme deformability (internal bending radius of 5 µm) and waterproofing properties, opening up new possibilities for low-cost and scalable TCs to replace indium-tin oxide (ITO) for future flexible electronics, as demonstrated in a capacitive touch panel in this work. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1388852021-02-15T06:02:29Z A deformable and highly robust ethyl cellulose transparent conductor with a scalable silver nanowires bundle micromesh Xiong, Jiaqing Li, Shaohui Ye, Yiyang Wang, Jiangxin Qian, Kai Cui, Peng Gao, Dace Lin, Meng-Fang Chen, Tupei Lee, Pooi See School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering School of Materials Science & Engineering Engineering::Materials Conductive Micromeshes Ethyl Cellulose Conductors Huge challenges remain regarding the facile fabrication of neat metallic nanowires mesh for high-quality transparent conductors (TCs). Here, a scalable metallic nanowires bundle micromesh is achieved readily by a spray-assisted self-assembly process, resulting in a conducting mesh with controllable ring size (4-45 µm) that can be easily realized on optional polymer substrates, rendering it transferable to various deformable and transparent substrates. The resultant conductors with the embedded nanowires bundle micromesh deliver superior and customizable optoelectronic performances, and can sustain various mechanical deformations, environmental exposure, and severe washing, exhibiting feasibility for large-scale manufacturing. The silver nanowires bundle micromesh with explicit conductive paths is embedded into an ethyl cellulose (EC) transparent substrate to achieve superior optoelectronic properties endowed by a low amount of incorporated nanowires, which leads to reduced extinction cross-section as verified by optical simulation. A representative EC conductor with a low sheet resistance of 25 Ω □-1 , ultrahigh transmittance of 97%, and low haze of 2.6% is attained, with extreme deformability (internal bending radius of 5 µm) and waterproofing properties, opening up new possibilities for low-cost and scalable TCs to replace indium-tin oxide (ITO) for future flexible electronics, as demonstrated in a capacitive touch panel in this work. National Research Foundation (NRF) This work was financially supported by the Competitive Research Program (Award No. NRF-CRP13-2014-02), National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore. The authors acknowledge Xiaoliang Chen and Jing-Hao Ciou for their assistance in some measurements. 2020-05-13T08:49:00Z 2020-05-13T08:49:00Z 2018 Journal Article Xiong, J., Li, S., Ye, Y., Wang, J., Qian, K., Cui, P., . . . Lee, P. S. (2018). A deformable and highly robust ethyl cellulose transparent conductor with a scalable silver nanowires bundle micromesh. Advanced Materials, 30(36), 1802803-. doi:10.1002/adma.201802803 0935-9648 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138885 10.1002/adma.201802803 30003591 2-s2.0-85050792681 36 30 en NRF-CRP13-2014-02 Advanced Materials © 2018 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. All rights reserved. This paper was published in Advanced Materials and is made available with permission of WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. |
| spellingShingle | Engineering::Materials Conductive Micromeshes Ethyl Cellulose Conductors Xiong, Jiaqing Li, Shaohui Ye, Yiyang Wang, Jiangxin Qian, Kai Cui, Peng Gao, Dace Lin, Meng-Fang Chen, Tupei Lee, Pooi See A deformable and highly robust ethyl cellulose transparent conductor with a scalable silver nanowires bundle micromesh |
| title | A deformable and highly robust ethyl cellulose transparent conductor with a scalable silver nanowires bundle micromesh |
| title_full | A deformable and highly robust ethyl cellulose transparent conductor with a scalable silver nanowires bundle micromesh |
| title_fullStr | A deformable and highly robust ethyl cellulose transparent conductor with a scalable silver nanowires bundle micromesh |
| title_full_unstemmed | A deformable and highly robust ethyl cellulose transparent conductor with a scalable silver nanowires bundle micromesh |
| title_short | A deformable and highly robust ethyl cellulose transparent conductor with a scalable silver nanowires bundle micromesh |
| title_sort | deformable and highly robust ethyl cellulose transparent conductor with a scalable silver nanowires bundle micromesh |
| topic | Engineering::Materials Conductive Micromeshes Ethyl Cellulose Conductors |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138885 |
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