Promising wet chemical strategies to synthesize Cu nanowires for emerging electronic applications
Copper nanowires (Cu NWs) are of particular interest for application as transparent and flexible conducting electrodes in 'see-through' and/or 'deformable' future electronics due to their excellent electrical, optical, and mechanical properties. It is necessary to develop reliabl...
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| Published in | Nanoscale Vol. 7; no. 41; pp. 17195 - 1721 |
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| Main Authors | , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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England
07.11.2015
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| Summary: | Copper nanowires (Cu NWs) are of particular interest for application as transparent and flexible conducting electrodes in 'see-through' and/or 'deformable' future electronics due to their excellent electrical, optical, and mechanical properties. It is necessary to develop reliable and facile methods to produce well-defined Cu NWs prior to their full exploitation. Among the wide variety of methods available to generate Cu NWs, solution-based synthesis routes are considered to be a promising strategy because of several advantages including fewer constraints on the selection of precursors, the solvent and reaction conditions, and the feasibility of large-scale low-cost production. Here, we provide a thorough review of various recently developed synthetic methodologies to obtain Cu NWs, with particular emphasis on wet chemical synthesis approaches including a hydrothermal route, reduction of metal precursors, and catalytic synthesis. The emerging applications of Cu NWs including transparent electrodes and flexible/stretchable electronics are also discussed, followed by brief comments on the remaining challenges and future research perspectives.
This review summarizes the wet chemical synthesis strategies, properties, and applications of copper nanowires. |
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| Bibliography: | Dr D. V. Ravi Kumar obtained his M.Sc. (Master of Science) degree in physical chemistry from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. Later, for his PhD, he joined the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune (NCL, Pune), under the guidance of Dr B. L. V. Prasad and Amol A. Kulkarni, where he worked on the development of continuous flow methods for the synthesis of nanomaterials. After obtaining his PhD degree in 2013, he joined Prof. Moon's lab as a postdoctoral fellow and he worked on the synthesis of Cu nanowires. His research interests expand to the areas of synthesis, nucleation-growth kinetics and applications of different nanomaterials. Jooho Moon is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He holds an MS and a PhD in materials science and engineering from the University of Florida. He did his postdoctoral research at the Materials Processing Center at MIT from 1996 to 1998. He was awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship in 1998. He joined the faculty at Yonsei University as an assistant professor in 2000, and was promoted to professor in 2009. His research interests include ink-jet printing of self-assembling colloids and functional nanoparticles, printed electronics and displays, micro solid oxide fuel cells, solar cells, and organic-inorganic hybrid materials. He has co-authored more than 170 publications in peer-reviewed articles on basic and applied research topics, and is named in 35 patents or disclosures. Kyoohee Woo is a senior researcher at the Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM), Daejeon, Korea. He received his BS in 2007 and a PhD in 2013 from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Yonsei University. He joined the material R&D team at LG Display working as a senior research engineer from 2013 to 2014. His research interests focus mainly on nanomaterial synthesis, light-assisted material processing and flexible device fabrication based on various printing/coating techniques. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 2040-3364 2040-3372 2040-3372 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c5nr05138j |