Bio‐Inspired Chemical Fabrication of Stretchable Transparent Electrodes

Yu, You; Zhang, Yaokang; Li, Kan; Yan, Casey; Zheng, Zijian

doi:10.1002/smll.201500529

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“…More recently, several advances in polymer‐assisted ELD16, 17, 18 have been accomplished for the fabrication of highly conductive metal structures for flexible and stretchable interconnects,19, 20, 21, 22 supercapacitors,23, 24 conductive textiles,25, 26 and optoelectronic devices 27, 28. The polymer‐assisted ELD typically involves three major steps: surface modification of functional polymer anchoring layers, loading of catalyst moieties to the polymer anchoring layer by ion exchange, and site‐selective metal electroless deposition.…”

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Microfluidic Patterning of Metal Structures for Flexible Conductors by In Situ Polymer‐Assisted Electroless Deposition

Liang

Zhou

et al. 2016

Advanced Science

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A low‐cost, solution‐processed, versatile, microfluidic approach is developed for patterning structures of highly conductive metals (e.g., copper, silver, and nickel) on chemically modified flexible polyethylene terephthalate thin films by in situ polymer‐assisted electroless metal deposition. This method has significantly lowered the consumption of catalyst as well as the metal plating solution.

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Microfluidic Patterning of Metal Structures for Flexible Conductors by In Situ Polymer‐Assisted Electroless Deposition

Liang

Zhou

et al. 2016

Advanced Science

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“…Conventionally, indium tin oxide (ITO) film is a ubiquitous transparent electrode of optoelectronics due to excellent sheet resistance and transparency (10 Ω sq −1 at 90% transmittance), but its brittleness by ceramic nature limits its further application to deformable devices. [53,54] Therefore, potential alternative materials have been extensively studied for ST electrodes, including CNTs, [55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63] graphene, [64][65][66][67][68][69] metallic NWs, [16,36,47, metallic grid/nanostructure, [94][95][96][97][98][99][100] conducting polymers, [52,[101][102][103][104][105][106][107] and hybrid composites. [39,[108][109][110][111][112][113][114] The performances of STECs are summarized in Table 1.…”

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“…[96] The zig-zag shaped Ag NP-based electrode retained its original conductivity up to 50% strain. Yu et al used veins in leaves as a template to create Cu based-electrodes by the chemical deposition method, [97] which retained their original electrical property up to 50% strain.…”

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Deformable and Transparent Ionic and Electronic Conductors for Soft Energy Devices

Park

Parida

Lee

2017

Advanced Energy Materials

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The recent boom in deformable or stretchable electronics, flexible transparent displays/screens, and their integration into the human body has facilitated the development of multifunctional energy devices that are stretchable, transparent, wearable, and/or biocompatible while meeting the energy or power requirements. The development of soft energy systems begins with the preparation of relevant conductors and the design of innovative device configurations. In this study, recent advances and trends in stretchable and transparent electronic and ionic conductors are reviewed coupled with the growing efforts to use them for soft energy storage and conversion systems. Stretchable transparent ionic conductors present possibilities for use as current collectors and electrolytes in soft electronic/energy devices, providing novel insight into biofriendly systems for an effective human–machine interaction. Moreover, representative examples that demonstrate soft energy devices based on stretchable transparent ionic/electronic conductors are discussed in detail. Furthermore, the challenges and perspectives of developing novel stretchable transparent conductors and device configurations with tailored features are also considered.

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“…SEM images showed that the cotton-AgNWs composite exhibited an interconnected, porous 3D framework of randomly oriented, crinkly sheets with continuous macropores, similar to those of previous conductive networks. [25][26][27] The change of porosity of cotton before and aer dip-coating was unobvious. As shown in Fig.…”

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Three-dimensional highly conductive silver nanowires sponges based on cotton-templated porous structures for stretchable conductors

Zhu

Wang

et al. 2017

RSC Adv.

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A stretchable cotton-Ag nanowire-poly(dimethylsiloxane) (cotton-AgNWs-PDMS) conductor was fabricated by embedding the unique binary conductive network structure of cotton-AgNWs in PDMS through a simple dip-coating method. The binary conductive network structure was constructed based on cotton which had an interconnected and junction-free macroporous structure as the skeleton to support the two dimensional AgNWs network, leading to excellent electrical and mechanical properties.The conductivity of the stretchable conductor can be adjusted easily by varying the dip-coating cycles, which can reach a highest electrical conductivity of 56.82 S cm À1 . The cotton-AgNWs-PDMS composite can retain excellent conductance under large tensile strains (120%). Moreover, the excellent conductance is maintained up to 1000 stretching or bending cycles. Because of the high conductivity and excellent stretchability, together with the facile fabrication process, the cotton-AgNWs-PDMS stretchable conductor might be widely used as interconnects and electrodes for stretchable intelligent and functional devices.

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Bio‐Inspired Chemical Fabrication of Stretchable Transparent Electrodes

Cited by 61 publications

References 43 publications

Microfluidic Patterning of Metal Structures for Flexible Conductors by In Situ Polymer‐Assisted Electroless Deposition

Microfluidic Patterning of Metal Structures for Flexible Conductors by In Situ Polymer‐Assisted Electroless Deposition

Deformable and Transparent Ionic and Electronic Conductors for Soft Energy Devices

Three-dimensional highly conductive silver nanowires sponges based on cotton-templated porous structures for stretchable conductors

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