Silver Nanowires: From Synthesis, Growth Mechanism, Device Fabrications to Prospective Engineered Applications
Longxia Yang, Xianjun Huang, Huating Wu, Yuanlong Liang, Mao Ye, Wencong Liu, Faling Li, Tao Xu and Haicheng Wang
1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials for Smart Sensing, General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals, Beijing 100088, and GRIMAT Engineering Institute Co. Ltd., Beijing, 101402, P. R. China
2School of Electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073, P. R. China
3SEU-FEI Nano-Pico Center, Key Lab of MEMS of Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, P. R. China
#These authors contributed to this work equally.
Abstract
Due to the excellent electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and the comprehensive performance on optoelectronics, flexible electronics and mechanics, silver nanowires (Ag NWs) have attracted many attentions and achieved diverse functions comparing other one-dimensional nanomaterials. Ag NWs based conductive films are considered as the most promising substitute for indium tin oxide (ITO) film, because they could be expected to solve the problem of scarcity of indium resources and the disadvantage of the unsuitability for bending. A variety of synthesis routes of Ag NWs have been studied, and some applications of Ag NWs based conductive films have been explored. Plenty of excellent progress had been achieved. However, it remains to find a preferable synthetic route for homogeneous Ag NWs with high yields and to explore the synthesis mechanism of Ag NWs in depth from the thermodynamics and kinetics processes. In this review, we provide a comprehensive summary on the recent progress of Ag NWs from synthesis, growth mechanism, device fabrications to prospective engineered applications.
Publication details
Received: 27 Sep 2022
Revised: 07 Dec 2022
Accepted: 23 Jan 2023
Published online: 28 Jan 2023
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DOI:
10.30919/es8d808
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23
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808
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Engineered Science, 2023, 23, 808
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A comprehensive summary on the recent progress of Ag NWs from synthesis, growth mechanism, device fa....
A comprehensive summary on the recent progress of Ag NWs from synthesis, growth mechanism, device fabrications to prospective Engineered Applications.
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