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Published on: June 22, 2014
Synthesis and characterization of electrically conductive polyethylene-supported graphene films
Gianfranco Carotenuto1, Sergio De Nicola2, Giovanni Ausanio3
1Institute for Polymer, Composite and Biomedical Materials, National Research Council, Piazzale E. Fermi 1, Portici, Napoli 80055, Italy.
Abstract:
We describe a simple mechanical approach for low-density polyethylene film coating by multilayer graphene. The technique is based on the exfoliation of nanocrystalline graphite (few-layer graphene) by application of shear stress and allows to obtain thin graphene layers on the plastic substrate. We report on the temperature dependence of electrical resistance behaviors in films of different thickness. The experimental results suggest that the semiconducting behavior observed at low temperature can be described in the framework of the Efros-Shklovskii variable-range-hopping model. The obtained films exhibit good electrical conductivity and transparency in the visible spectral region.
Pacs:
72.80.Vp; 78.67.Wj; 78.66.Qn; 85.40.Hp.
