Highly Conductive Flexible Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Sheet Films for Transparent Touch Screen

Highly conductive and transparent thin films were prepared using highly purified multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) sheets. The electrical properties of the MWCNT sheet were remarkably improved by an acid treatment, resulting in densely packed MWCNTs. The morphology of the sheets reveals that continuous electrical pathways were formed by the acid treatment, greatly improving the sheet resistance all the while maintaining an excellent optical transmittance. These results encourage the use of these MWCNT sheets with low sheet resistance (450 Omega/sq) and high optical transmittance (90%) as a potential candidate for flexible display applications. (c) 2013 The Japan Society of Applied Physics