• 文献标题:   Shape-driven arrest of coffee stain effect drives the fabrication of carbon-nanotube-graphene-oxide inks for printing embedded structures and temperature sensors
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHAO BH, WANG YB, SINHA S, CHEN CJ, LIU DP, DASGUPTA A, HU LB, DAS S
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  • 出版物名称:   NANOSCALE
  • ISSN:   2040-3364 EI 2040-3372
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Maryland
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1039/c9nr08450a
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Carbon nanotube (CNT) based binder-free, syringe-printable inks, with graphene oxide (GO) being used as the dispersant, have been designed and developed. We discovered that the printability of the ink is directly attributed to the uniform deposition of the GO-CNT agglomerates, as opposed to the 'coffee-staining' despite these aggregates being micron-sized. The ellipsoidal nature of the micron-scale GO-CNT agglomerates/particles enables these particles to severely perturb the air-water interface, triggering a large long-range capillary interaction that causes the uniform deposition by overcoming the "coffee-stain"-forming forces from the evaporation-mediated flows. We evaluated the properties of this ink and identified a temperature-dependent resistance with a negative temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) alpha ranging from similar to-10(-3) to -10(-2)/degrees C depending on ink compositions. Finally, the printing is conducted on flat and curved surfaces, for developing polymer-ink embedded structures that might serve as precursors to syringe-printable CNT-based nanocomposites, and for fabricating sensor-like patterns that for certain ink compositions demonstrate alpha similar to -10(-3)/degrees C with a large averaged resistance drop (per unit temperature) of -3.5 omega degrees C-1.