A Highly Stretchable and Fatigue-Free Transparent Electrode Based on an In-Plane Buckled Au Nanotrough Network
Abstract
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 (Rsh ≈ 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.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Houston, TX (United States)
- Southern Univ. of Science & Technology (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Houston, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1533057
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1401053
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0010831; K16251101; Y01256120
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Electronic Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2199-160X
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; materials science; physics; electrospinning; flexible transparent electrodes; in‐plane buckling; nanotrough; stretchable
Citation Formats
Huang, Siya, Liu, Yuan, Guo, Chuan Fei, and Ren, Zhifeng. A Highly Stretchable and Fatigue-Free Transparent Electrode Based on an In-Plane Buckled Au Nanotrough Network. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1002/aelm.201600534.
Huang, Siya, Liu, Yuan, Guo, Chuan Fei, & Ren, Zhifeng. A Highly Stretchable and Fatigue-Free Transparent Electrode Based on an In-Plane Buckled Au Nanotrough Network. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201600534
Huang, Siya, Liu, Yuan, Guo, Chuan Fei, and Ren, Zhifeng. Mon .
"A Highly Stretchable and Fatigue-Free Transparent Electrode Based on an In-Plane Buckled Au Nanotrough Network". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201600534. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1533057.
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title = {A Highly Stretchable and Fatigue-Free Transparent Electrode Based on an In-Plane Buckled Au Nanotrough Network},
author = {Huang, Siya and Liu, Yuan and Guo, Chuan Fei and Ren, Zhifeng},
abstractNote = {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 (Rsh ≈ 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.},
doi = {10.1002/aelm.201600534},
journal = {Advanced Electronic Materials},
number = 3,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 20 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Mon Feb 20 00:00:00 EST 2017}
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