Synthesis of Silver Nanowires with Reduced Diameters Using Benzoin-Derived Radicals to Make Transparent Conductors with High Transparency and Low Haze
Abstract
Reducing the diameter of silver nanowires has been proven to be an effective way to improve their optoelectronic performance by lessening light attenuation. The state-of-the-art silver nanowires are typically around 20 nm in diameter. Here in this paper we report a modified polyol synthesis of silver nanowires with average diameters as thin as 13 nm and aspect ratios up to 3000. The success of this synthesis is based on the employment of benzoin-derived radicals in the polyol approach and does not require high-pressure conditions. The strong reducing power of radicals allows the reduction of silver precursors to occur at relatively low temperatures, wherein the lateral growth of silver nanowires is restrained because of efficient surface passivation. The optoelectronic performance of as-prepared 13 nm silver nanowires presents a sheet resistance of 28 Ω sq-1 at a transmittance of 95% with a haze factor of ~1.2%, comparable to that of commercial indium tin oxide (ITO).
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- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); California Research Alliance (CARA), BASF Corporation, Berkeley, CA (United States); BASF Corporation, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Germany)
- BASF Corporation, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Germany)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- California Research Alliance (CARA), BASF Corporation, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Kavli Energy NanoSciences Inst.; California Research Alliance (CARA), BASF Corporation, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1601187
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nano Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 18; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 1530-6984
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; silver nanowire; ultrathin; polyol synthesis; transparent conductor; low haze factor
Citation Formats
Niu, Zhiqiang, Cui, Fan, Kuttner, Elisabeth, Xie, Chenlu, Chen, Hong, Sun, Yuchun, Dehestani, Ahmad, Schierle-Arndt, Kerstin, and Yang, Peidong. Synthesis of Silver Nanowires with Reduced Diameters Using Benzoin-Derived Radicals to Make Transparent Conductors with High Transparency and Low Haze. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b02479.
Niu, Zhiqiang, Cui, Fan, Kuttner, Elisabeth, Xie, Chenlu, Chen, Hong, Sun, Yuchun, Dehestani, Ahmad, Schierle-Arndt, Kerstin, & Yang, Peidong. Synthesis of Silver Nanowires with Reduced Diameters Using Benzoin-Derived Radicals to Make Transparent Conductors with High Transparency and Low Haze. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b02479
Niu, Zhiqiang, Cui, Fan, Kuttner, Elisabeth, Xie, Chenlu, Chen, Hong, Sun, Yuchun, Dehestani, Ahmad, Schierle-Arndt, Kerstin, and Yang, Peidong. Mon .
"Synthesis of Silver Nanowires with Reduced Diameters Using Benzoin-Derived Radicals to Make Transparent Conductors with High Transparency and Low Haze". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b02479. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1601187.
@article{osti_1601187,
title = {Synthesis of Silver Nanowires with Reduced Diameters Using Benzoin-Derived Radicals to Make Transparent Conductors with High Transparency and Low Haze},
author = {Niu, Zhiqiang and Cui, Fan and Kuttner, Elisabeth and Xie, Chenlu and Chen, Hong and Sun, Yuchun and Dehestani, Ahmad and Schierle-Arndt, Kerstin and Yang, Peidong},
abstractNote = {Reducing the diameter of silver nanowires has been proven to be an effective way to improve their optoelectronic performance by lessening light attenuation. The state-of-the-art silver nanowires are typically around 20 nm in diameter. Here in this paper we report a modified polyol synthesis of silver nanowires with average diameters as thin as 13 nm and aspect ratios up to 3000. The success of this synthesis is based on the employment of benzoin-derived radicals in the polyol approach and does not require high-pressure conditions. The strong reducing power of radicals allows the reduction of silver precursors to occur at relatively low temperatures, wherein the lateral growth of silver nanowires is restrained because of efficient surface passivation. The optoelectronic performance of as-prepared 13 nm silver nanowires presents a sheet resistance of 28 Ω sq-1 at a transmittance of 95% with a haze factor of ~1.2%, comparable to that of commercial indium tin oxide (ITO).},
doi = {10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b02479},
journal = {Nano Letters},
number = 8,
volume = 18,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 16 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Jul 16 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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