Fabrication of Ag nanowire/polymer composite nanocables via direct electrospinning. (26th July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Han, Ming-Chu; He, Hong-Wei; Zhang, Bin; Wang, Xiao-Xiong; Zhang, Jun; You, Ming-Hao; Yan, Shi-Ying; Long, Yun-Ze
• Is Part Of: Materials research express. Volume 4:Number 7(2017)
• Publication Date: 2017-07-26
• Subjects: coaxial nanocable -- electrospinning -- silver nanowire -- PVDF nanofiber; Materials science -- Research -- Periodicals; Materials science -- Periodicals; 620.11
• DOI: 10.1088/2053-1591/aa7c13
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2053-1591

Abstract

Abstract: 1D nanocables consisting of metal core with high conductivity and protective polymer shell are promising for electronic devices. In this paper, silver nanowire/polyvinylidene fluoride (AgNW/PVDF) composite nanocables with excellent thermal stability were successfully fabricated by facile direct electrospinning (e-spinning), in which a slurry of AgNWs were uniformly dispersed into N, N-dimethylformamide/acetone solution containing 20% PVDF to form the e-spinning precursor solution. The decomposed temperature of resultant AgNW/PVDF nanocables is up to 460 °C. Interestingly, the as-spun nanocables exhibit more β phase of PVDF than that of pure PVDF nanofibers. The as-spun AgNW/PVDF nanocables could be applied in fields of antibacterial, ultrathin cables and optoelectronic devices.