Journal
PHYSICA E-LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS & NANOSTRUCTURES
Volume 76, Issue -, Pages 88-94Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physe.2015.10.009
Keywords
Flexible transparent conductive films; Silver nanowires; ZnO protective layer; Antibacterial
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province [1208RJZA199]
- fund of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing and Recycling of Non-ferrous Metals, Lanzhou University of Technology [SKLAB02014003]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [lzujbky-2015-116]
- SRF for ROCS, SEM
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We prepared highly flexible, transparent, conductive and antibacterial film by spin coating a silver nanowire suspension on a poly (ethylene terephthalate) (PET) substrate. The ZnO layer covered the conductive silver nanowire (AgNW) network to protect the metal nanowires from oxidization and enhance both wire-to-wire adhesion and wire-to-substrate adhesion. It is found that the number of AgNW coatings correlates with both the sheet resistance (R-s) and the transmittance of the AgNW/ZnO composite films. An excellent 92% optical transmittance in the visible range and a surface sheet resistance of only 9 Omega sq(-1) has been achieved, respectively. Even after bending 1000 times (5 mm bending radius), we found no significant change in the sheet resistance or optical transmittance. The real-time sheet resistance measured as a function of bending radius also remains stable even at the smallest measured bending radius (1 mm). The AgNW/ZnO composite films also show antibacterial effects which could be useful for the fabrication of wearable electronic devices. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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