A Highly Stretchable and Fatigue-Free Transparent Electrode Based on an In-Plane Buckled Au Nanotrough Network

Huang, Siya; Liu, Yuan; Guo, Chuan Fei; Ren, Zhifeng

doi:10.1002/aelm.201600534

A Highly Stretchable and Fatigue-Free Transparent Electrode Based on an In-Plane Buckled Au Nanotrough Network

Journal Article · Mon Feb 20 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Advanced Electronic Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201600534· OSTI ID:1533057

Huang, Siya ^[1]; Liu, Yuan ^[2]; Guo, Chuan Fei ^[3]; Ren, Zhifeng ^[2]

Univ. of Houston, TX (United States); DOE/OSTI
Univ. of Houston, TX (United States)
Southern Univ. of Science & Technology (China)

Flexible transparent electrodes are an indispensable component of next-generation soft optoelectronics such as wearable electronics and electronic artificial skins (E-skins). Among the existing candidate materials, metal nanotrough networks exhibit optimal overall optoelectronic performance with impressive bendability. However, their further practical applications are hindered by their limited mechanical stretchability, which is highly desired in biointegrated systems. Here it is demonstrated that superior mechanical stretchability with tensile strains up to 300% can be achieved in Au nanotrough networks by introducing an in-plane sinusoidal wavy structure. For the first time it is shown that with a precisely tuned nanotrough geometry along with an optimized network configuration, the buckled Au nanotrough network can be repeatedly stretched to strains up to 120% for 100 000 cycles, exhibiting excellent fatigue performance. Such highly stretchable and fatigue-free (at a high tensile strain up to 100%) Au nanotrough networks present a competent sheet resistance (R_sh ≈ 10 Ω sq^-1) with high optical transparency (T = 91%), which are demonstrated to be highly compatible with human skins as conformal flexible transparent electrodes.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Houston, TX (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0010831

OSTI ID:: 1533057

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1401053

Journal Information:: Advanced Electronic Materials, Journal Name: Advanced Electronic Materials Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 3; ISSN 2199-160X

Publisher:: WileyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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