Scientists now report in ACS Applied Nano Materials a hybrid material consisting of imitation pearl combined
with silver nanowires that works as a heater, with the added benefit of high flexibility, suggesting a potential role in wearable devices.
But conventional techniques for printing circuits don't work well
with silver nanowires; the nanowires often clog the printing nozzles.
Not exact matches
A team there recently printed what they call
silver nanowire ink — a paste composed of 100 - nanometer - wide wires, jumbled together — onto paper made
with fibers slightly wider than common paper.
The researchers have used the new technique to create prototypes that make use of the
silver nanowire circuits, including a glove
with an internal heater and a wearable electrode for use in electrocardiography.
«While
silver nanowires have been used in touch screens before, no one has tried to combine them
with graphene.
We float the graphene particles on the surface of water, then pick them up
with a rubber stamp, a bit like a potato stamp, and lay it on top of the
silver nanowire film in whatever pattern we like.
The breakthrough from physicists at the University of Sussex has been to combine
silver nanowires with graphene — a two dimensional carbon material.