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Highly Stretchable and Highly Conductive Metal Electrode by Very Long Metal Nanowire Percolation Network

  1. Phillip Lee1,†,
  2. Jinhwan Lee1,†,
  3. Hyungman Lee2,
  4. Junyeob Yeo1,
  5. Sukjoon Hong1,
  6. Koo Hyun Nam3,
  7. Dongjin Lee4,
  8. Seung Seob Lee1,*,
  9. Seung Hwan Ko1,*

Article first published online: 21 MAY 2012

DOI: 10.1002/adma.201200359

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Advanced Materials

Advanced Materials

Volume 24, Issue 25, pages 3326–3332, July 3, 2012

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Lee, P., Lee, J., Lee, H., Yeo, J., Hong, S., Nam, K. H., Lee, D., Lee, S. S. and Ko, S. H. (2012), Highly Stretchable and Highly Conductive Metal Electrode by Very Long Metal Nanowire Percolation Network. Adv. Mater., 24: 3326–3332. doi: 10.1002/adma.201200359

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-701, Korea

  2. 2

    Nano Sensor and Device Team, Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), Gyeonggi-do, 463-816, Korea

  3. 3

    Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, 120-750, Korea.

  4. 4

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Konkuk University, 120 Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 143-701, Korea

  1. †

    P. L. and J. L. contributed equally to this work.

*Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-701, Korea.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 22 JUN 2012
  2. Article first published online: 21 MAY 2012
  3. Manuscript Revised: 17 APR 2012
  4. Manuscript Received: 25 JAN 2012

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Keywords:

  • stretchable electronics;
  • flexible electronics;
  • very long metal nanowires synthesis;
  • successive multistep growth
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A highly stretchable metal electrode is developed via the solution-processing of very long (>100 μm) metallic nanowires and subsequent percolation network formation via low-temperature nanowelding. The stretchable metal electrode from very long metal nanowires demonstrated high electrical conductivity (∼9 ohm sq−1) and mechanical compliance (strain > 460%) at the same time. This method is expected to overcome the performance limitation of the current stretchable electronics such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, and buckled nanoribbons.

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