• 文献标题:   Microstructure-tunable highly conductive graphene-metal composites achieved by inkjet printing and low temperature annealing
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHAO J, SONG M, WEN CY, MAJEE S, YANG D, WU B, ZHANG SL, ZHANG ZB
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, composite, inkjet printing
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS MICROENGINEERING
  • ISSN:   0960-1317 EI 1361-6439
  • 通讯作者地址:   Uppsala Univ
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1088/1361-6439/aaa450
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

We present a method for fabricating highly conductive graphene-silver composite films with a tunable microstructure achieved by means of an inkjet printing process and low temperature annealing. This is implemented by starting from an aqueous ink formulation using a reactive silver solution mixed with graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs), followed by inkjet printing deposition and annealing at 100 degrees C for silver formation. Due to the hydrophilic surfaces and the aid of a polymer stabilizer in an aqueous solution, the GNPs are uniformly covered with a silver layer. Simply by adjusting the content of GNPs in the inks, highly conductive GNP/Ag composites (> 106 S m(-1)), with their microstructure changed from a large-area porous network to a compact film, is formed. In addition, the printed composite films show superior quality on a variety of unconventional substrates compared to its counterpart without GNPs. The availability of composite films paves the way to the metallization in different printed devices, e.g. interconnects in printed circuits and electrodes in energy storage devices.