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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 24, Issue 48, Pages 7580-7587Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201402547
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- EPSRC/KTA
- Kwan Trust
- M-SOLV Ltd.
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K503939/1, EP/K031562/1, 1105482] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/K031562/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Silver nanowire coatings are an attractive alternative to indium tin oxide for producing transparent conductors. To fabricate coatings with low sheet resistance required for touchscreen displays, a multi-layer network of silver nanowires must be produced that may not be cost effective. This problem is counteracted here by modifying the electrical properties of an ultra-low-density nanowire network through local deposition of conducting graphene platelets. Unlike other solution-processed materials, such as graphene oxide, our pristine graphene is free of oxygen functional groups, resulting in it being electrically conducting without the need for further chemical treatment. Graphene adsorption at inter-wire junctions as well as graphene connecting adjacent wires contributes to a marked enhancement in electrical properties. Using our approach, the amount of nanowires needed to produce viable transparent electrodes could be more than 50 times less than the equivalent pristine high density nanowire networks, thus having major commercial implications. Using a laser ablation process, it is shown that the resulting films can be patterned into individual electrode structures, which is a pre-requisite to touchscreen sensor fabrication.
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