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Hydrothermal Synthesis of Silver Nanowires and Application as Transparent Conductive Materials

George A.L., McGough P.T., Lunn J.D., Wang W., Kuo T.-C., Todd C.C., Goss J.M., Collins R.M., Malek A., Calverley E.M., The Dow Chemical Company, US

A scalable hydrothermal synthesis for silver nanowires has been developed. The new synthetic route is expected to be compatible with industrially available reactor systems and offer environmental and safety advantages due to use of aqueous [...]

Stretchable Electronics

Liang J., Li L., Liang J., Hajagos J., Niu X., Yu Z., Pei Q., University of California, Los Angeles, US

The emergence of devices that combine elasticity with electronic or optoelectronic properties offers exciting new opportunities for applications, but brings significant materials challenges. We will report (1) an elastomeric transparent conductor as a radically new [...]

Flexible fluorine-doped tin oxide based composite electrodes for photovoltaic applications

Giusti G., Puyoo E., Langley D.P., Consonni V., Bellet D., Laboratoire des Matériaux et du Génie Physique (LMGP), FR

Fluorine-doped tin dioxide (FTO) thin films were deposited via ultrasonic spray pyrolysis directly on preheated polyimide (PI) - DuPont™ Kapton® polyimide flexible film substrates. All the FTO films deposited on PI substrates exhibited polycrystalline cassiterite [...]

SWCNT/Inorganic polymer nanocomposite: a new class of Transparent Conductor and UV-Vis Photo – Generator

Bose S., Balaji S., Debnath R., Jadavpur University, IN

Synthesis of a light sensitive SWCNT/(Pb, Zn)-phosphate glass composite and it’s optical, light induced ESR, electronic and optoelectronic properties are reported. Absorption spectrum of SWCNTs of the composite differs from that of its film. Since [...]