Rapid synthesis of ultra-long silver nanowires for high performance transparent electrodes

Alexandra Madeira; Dorina T Papanastasiou; Thierry Toupance; Laurent Servant; Mona Tréguer-Delapierre; Daniel Bellet; I A Goldthorpe

doi:10.1039/d0na00392a

Rapid synthesis of ultra-long silver nanowires for high performance transparent electrodes

Nanoscale Adv. 2020 Jul 13;2(9):3804-3808. doi: 10.1039/d0na00392a. eCollection 2020 Sep 16.

Authors

Alexandra Madeira^{1

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3}, Dorina T Papanastasiou⁴, Thierry Toupance³, Laurent Servant³, Mona Tréguer-Delapierre¹, Daniel Bellet⁴, I A Goldthorpe²

Affiliations

¹ Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, ICMCB, UMR 5026 33600 Pessac France mona.treguer@icmcb.cnrs.fr.
² Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada igoldthorpe@uwaterloo.ca.
³ Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, ISM, UMR 5255 33400 Talence France.
⁴ Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LMGP F-38000 Grenoble France.

Abstract

By using 1,2-propanediol instead of the classic polyol solvent, ethylene glycol, ultra-long silver nanowires are obtained in only 1 h. These nanowires lead to transparent electrodes with a sheet resistance of 5 Ohms per sq at a transparency of 94%, one of the highest figures of merit for nanowire electrodes ever reported.