Flexible
conductive films with high surface conductivity, broadband
optical absorption, and excellent chemical and thermal stabilities
are desired for optoelectronic applications. Herein, a facile layer-by-layer
vacuum filtration method is presented to fabricate a sandwich-structured
conductive film with silver nanowires (AgNWs) that adhere to the surface
of cellulose nanofibers (CNF)/graphene oxide (GO) hybrid membranes.
The middle CNF/GO layer offers a flexible and stable substrate for
the AgNWs layer to form a condensed stratiform structure. The well-designed
sandwich-structured film exhibited conductive anisotropy with improved
conductivity along the in-plane direction and insulating properties
along the cross-plane direction. The successful coating of monatomic
GO sheets on AgNWs network resulted in a sheet resistance lower than
7 Ω sq–1 due to the reduction of the contact
resistance between the AgNWs junctions. Thanks to the synergistic
effect between the CNF/GO substrate and the AgNWs layer which with
excellent localized surface plasmonic property, the sandwich-structured
film not only achieved efficient broadband optical absorption up to
∼80% at visible and near-infrared frequencies but also demonstrated
prominent surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) performance. Moreover,
the film exhibited outstanding mechanical durability, including thermal
and chemical stability, demonstrably resisting high temperature and
solvent corrosion in harsh environments, making it suitable for promising
applications in flexible optoelectronic devices.