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Scalable Solution-processed Fabrication Strategy for High-performance, Flexible, Transparent Electrodes with Embedded Metal Mesh
Published on: June 23, 2017
Metal nanotrough embedded colorless polyimide films: transparent conducting electrodes with exceptional flexibility
Ji-Young Moon1, Doo-Young Youn, Chanhoon Kim
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea. idkim@kaist.ac.kr.
Abstract:
Reliable performances with a long lifetime are the most important factors of transparent conducting electrodes (TCEs). Here, we report a new synthesis strategy for high-performance TCEs based on the fusion of a polyimide (PI) substrate and silver layer-coated PI nanofibers. Due to the successful fusion of the substrate into the core without immiscibility, the as-synthesized TCEs showed excellent performances (a sheet resistance of 1.33 Ω sq-1 and a total optical transmittance of 88%) even after 100 000 bending cycles at a bending radius of 1.75 mm.
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