A thin-film polymer heating element with a continuous silver nanowires network embedded inside

Elizaveta Kozhina; Dmitry Panov; Nataliya Kovalets; Pavel Apel; Sergey Bedin

doi:10.1088/1361-6528/ad0247

A thin-film polymer heating element with a continuous silver nanowires network embedded inside

Nanotechnology. 2023 Oct 31;35(3). doi: 10.1088/1361-6528/ad0247.

Authors

Elizaveta Kozhina^{1

2}, Dmitry Panov³, Nataliya Kovalets^{1

4}, Pavel Apel⁵, Sergey Bedin^{1

3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Advanced Photonics and Sensorics, Lebedev Physical Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia.
² Plasmonics Laboratory, The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia.
³ Thin Film Growth Laboratories and Inorganic Nanostructures, Center of Crystallography and Photonics of RAS, Moscow, Russia.
⁴ Laboratory of Advanced Materials Physics, Moscow Pedagogical State University, Moscow, Russia.
⁵ Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.

PMID: 37820633
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ad0247

Abstract

This study presents a method for fabricating a film-based heating element using a polymer material with an array of intersecting conductive elements embedded within it. Track-etched membranes (TM) with a thickness of 10μm were used as the template, and their pores were filled with metal, forming a three-dimensional grid. Due to the unique manufacturing process of TM, the pores inside intersect with each other, allowing for contacts between individual nanowires (NWs) when filled with metal. Experimental results demonstrated that filling the TM pores with silver allows for heating temperatures up to 78 degrees without deformation or damage to the heating element. The resulting flexible heating element can be utilized in medical devices for heating purposes or as a thermal barrier coating.

Keywords: film heater; nanowires; template synthesis; track-etched membranes.