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- Title
Dynamic Agitation‐Induced Centrifugal Purification of Nanowires Enabling Transparent Electrodes with 99.2% Transmittance.
- Authors
Wang, Huike; Tang, Honghao; Liang, Jiajie; Chen, Yongsheng
- Abstract
To promote silver nanowire (AgNW) as a viable commercial alternative for transparent electrodes, it is necessary to further develop industrially scalable, high‐performance yielding and cost‐efficient methods of purifying large quantities of as‐prepared AgNW suspensions. In this work, a facile, effective, and mass scalable purification method that employs a novel dynamic agitation‐induced centrifugal filtration concept to obtain highly purified and printable AgNW solutions. This unique dynamic filtration system, which amalgamates the advantages of membrane filtration, centrifugal filtration and "cross‐flow" filtration, is effective at (1) removing nanoparticles, short nanorods and organic additives from as‐prepared AgNW suspensions without producing aggregation; (2) concentrating purified AgNW suspensions to a desirable concentration; and (3) formulating printable AgNW suspensions with suitable solvents. The resulting purified, polyol‐method synthesized AgNW with a modest aspect ratio of ≈1000 and narrowed length distribution, can be coated into flexible transparent electrodes to yield a transmittance of 99.2% and 95.2% at 230 and 29.6 ohm sq‐1 respectively. These performance metrics are comparable or exceed that of most transparent electrodes made from AgNW with larger aspect ratio (>2000) but purified through conventional purification methods. To maximize the dynamic purification efficiency, a model is also developed to describe and predict this dynamic filtration process. A facile, effective, and mass scalable purification method that employs a novel dynamic agitation‐induced centrifugal filtration concept to obtain highly purified and printable silver nanowire solutions, which can be directly coated into flexible transparent electrodes to yield a transmittance of 99.2% and 95.2% at 230 and 29.6 ohm sq−1, respectively, is introduced.
- Subjects
NANOWIRES; ELECTRODES; MEMBRANE separation; ADDITIVES; NANORODS
- Publication
Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, Vol 28, Issue 45, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1616-301X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/adfm.201804479