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Silver Nanowires from Sonication-Induced Scission
Silver nanowires (AgNWs) have great potential to be used in the flexible electronics industry for their applications in flexible, transparent conductors due to high conductivity and light reflectivity. Those applications always involve size which strongly affects the optical and electrical propertie...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6356813/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30621161 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi10010029 |
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author | Wang, Yuehui Yang, Xing Du, Dexi |
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description | Silver nanowires (AgNWs) have great potential to be used in the flexible electronics industry for their applications in flexible, transparent conductors due to high conductivity and light reflectivity. Those applications always involve size which strongly affects the optical and electrical properties of AgNWs. AgNWs of mean diameter 70 nm and mean length 12.5 μm were achieved by the polyol solvothermal method. Sonication-induced scission was used to obtain the small size AgNWs. The relationship between the size of AgNWs and the ultrasonic time, ultrasonic power, and concentration of AgNWs were studied. The results show that the length of AgNWs gradually reduces with the increase of the ultrasonic time and ultrasonic power, and with the decrease of concentration of AgNWs. Meanwhile, there is an existence of a limiting length below which fragmentation of AgNWs no longer occurs. Further, the mechanics of sonication-induced scission for the fragmentation of AgNWs was discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-63568132019-02-05 Silver Nanowires from Sonication-Induced Scission Wang, Yuehui Yang, Xing Du, Dexi Micromachines (Basel) Article Silver nanowires (AgNWs) have great potential to be used in the flexible electronics industry for their applications in flexible, transparent conductors due to high conductivity and light reflectivity. Those applications always involve size which strongly affects the optical and electrical properties of AgNWs. AgNWs of mean diameter 70 nm and mean length 12.5 μm were achieved by the polyol solvothermal method. Sonication-induced scission was used to obtain the small size AgNWs. The relationship between the size of AgNWs and the ultrasonic time, ultrasonic power, and concentration of AgNWs were studied. The results show that the length of AgNWs gradually reduces with the increase of the ultrasonic time and ultrasonic power, and with the decrease of concentration of AgNWs. Meanwhile, there is an existence of a limiting length below which fragmentation of AgNWs no longer occurs. Further, the mechanics of sonication-induced scission for the fragmentation of AgNWs was discussed. MDPI 2019-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6356813/ /pubmed/30621161 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi10010029 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wang, Yuehui Yang, Xing Du, Dexi Silver Nanowires from Sonication-Induced Scission |
title | Silver Nanowires from Sonication-Induced Scission |
title_full | Silver Nanowires from Sonication-Induced Scission |
title_fullStr | Silver Nanowires from Sonication-Induced Scission |
title_full_unstemmed | Silver Nanowires from Sonication-Induced Scission |
title_short | Silver Nanowires from Sonication-Induced Scission |
title_sort | silver nanowires from sonication-induced scission |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6356813/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30621161 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi10010029 |
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