PMID- 38321055
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20240210
IS  - 2045-2322 (Electronic)
IS  - 2045-2322 (Linking)
VI  - 14
IP  - 1
DP  - 2024 Feb 6
TI  - Fabrication of composite transparent conductive electrodes based on silver 
      nanowires.
PG  - 3045
LID - 10.1038/s41598-024-53286-8 [doi]
LID - 3045
AB  - Composite transparent conductive electrodes (C-TCEs) have recently been produced 
      using low-cost techniques to keep up with the boom in the fabrication and 
      development of optoelectronic devices. In this article, silver nanowires (AgNWs) 
      were successfully synthesized by a simple hydrothermal method using different 
      molecular weights M(W)s of poly (N-vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP). Graphene oxide (GO) 
      was prepared using the modified Hummers' method and a reduction step was held on 
      GO films to produce reduced GO (rGO). C-TCEs were fabricated by over-coating the 
      AgNWs electrodes with rGO, or poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene 
      sulfonate to improve the roughness, surface energy, and sheet resistance. The 
      influence of using lower and higher M(W)s of PVP on the yield, shape, and size of 
      AgNWs was investigated. The results showed that using lower M(W) of PVP had a 
      great effect on the yield, morphology, and aspect ratio of AgNWs with diameter of 
      46 nm and average length 12 microm. The optical, morphological, topographical, and 
      electrical properties of TCEs were studied. AgNWs/rGO composite electrode 
      provided the lowest surface roughness and surface energy of 250 nm and 
      47.95 mN/m, respectively, with a relatively high transparency of 78.2% at 550 nm 
      light wavelength, and a low sheet resistance of 27 Omega/ square.
CI  - (c) 2024. The Author(s).
FAU - Elsokary, Amal
AU  - Elsokary A
AD  - Department of Materials Science, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, 
      Alexandria University, P.O. Box 21526, Alexandria, Egypt. 
      eng-amal.alsokary1217@alexu.edu.eg.
FAU - Soliman, Moataz
AU  - Soliman M
AD  - Department of Materials Science, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, 
      Alexandria University, P.O. Box 21526, Alexandria, Egypt.
FAU - Abulfotuh, Fuad
AU  - Abulfotuh F
AD  - Department of Materials Science, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, 
      Alexandria University, P.O. Box 21526, Alexandria, Egypt.
FAU - Ebrahim, Shaker
AU  - Ebrahim S
AD  - Department of Materials Science, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, 
      Alexandria University, P.O. Box 21526, Alexandria, Egypt.
FAU - Sadat-Shafai, Torfeh
AU  - Sadat-Shafai T
AD  - Department of Engineering, School of Digital, Technologies and Arts, 
      Staffordshire University, Manchester, UK.
FAU - Karim, Marwa
AU  - Karim M
AD  - Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Moharram Bek, P.O. 
      Box 21511, Alexandria, Egypt.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20240206
PL  - England
TA  - Sci Rep
JT  - Scientific reports
JID - 101563288
SB  - IM
PMC - PMC10847120
COIS- The authors declare no competing interests.
EDAT- 2024/02/07 00:42
MHDA- 2024/02/07 00:43
PMCR- 2024/02/06
CRDT- 2024/02/06 23:18
PHST- 2023/10/27 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2024/01/30 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2024/02/07 00:43 [medline]
PHST- 2024/02/07 00:42 [pubmed]
PHST- 2024/02/06 23:18 [entrez]
PHST- 2024/02/06 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1038/s41598-024-53286-8 [pii]
AID - 53286 [pii]
AID - 10.1038/s41598-024-53286-8 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Sci Rep. 2024 Feb 6;14(1):3045. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-53286-8.