Silver Nanowires: From Synthesis, Growth Mechanism, Device Fabrications to Prospective Engineered Applications

Self-Healing Flexible Pressure Sensor for Human Motion Detection Based on Silver-Nanoparticle-Modified Polyimide Membranes

“…Meanwhile, silver nanoparticles can directly destroy bacterial cell membranes and kill them. Due to their large surface area, silver nanoparticles are effective antibacterial agents and provide better contact with microorganisms to achieve thorough interaction. − …”

Liquid-Film Rupture for Web-like Ag Nanowires toward High-Performance Organic Schottky Barrier Transistors

“…Thus, a high contact angle is crucial for this process; choosing water as the processing solvent and a hydrophobic substrate would be ideal considering Δ G . However, increasing the amount of water in the processing solvent is associated with an inefficient dewetting process, yielding aggregated AgNW dots, but not the desired web-like film morphology . To form a web-like AgNW network film and increase the pore size, the water content of the liquid film must be high at the moment of liquid-film rupture, and simultaneously, there should be enough of a solvent with lower surface tension to prevent the AgNW film from breaking.…”

“…This method not only maximizes the gate electric field delivered to the semiconductor because of the presence of a larger exposed interfacial area between the dielectric and semiconductor but also significantly lowers the off-current because of the minimized interfacial area between the source electrode and semiconductor . AgNWs have been widely used in porous electrodes because of their low cost, high ductility, and optoelectronic characteristics. − Moreover, the porosity of AgNWs can be easily controlled by adjusting the solution concentration and surface energy. However, previous attempts at optimizing the source electrode of OSBTs have only been partially successful, resulting in a marginal on/off ratio of ∼10 4 . , Although highly porous and continuous AgNW thin films have been developed in the field of organic optoelectronics, these conventional methods are unsuitable for OSBTs because of their tedious and challenging fabrication processes. − As an alternative, surface-energy-driven dewetting approaches have been proposed, such as depositing suspended AgNWs on the edges of droplets by maximizing the capillary flow and patterning by casting a binary mixture on hydrophobic surfaces to induce the rupturing of the liquid thin film .…”

Robust performance for composites using silicone rubber with different prospects for wearable electronics

“…For example, the material of interest influences the overall output of the performance of such wearable electronic devices. The main fillers added to the rubber composites include metal nanostructures, 16–18 wood‐derived porous carbons, 19 or MXene 20–24 …”

“…15 For example, the material of interest influences the overall output of the performance of such wearable electronic devices. The main fillers added to the rubber composites include metal nanostructures, [16][17][18] wood-derived porous carbons, 19 or MXene. [20][21][22][23][24] Mechanical and biomechanical stability briefly means the ability of a wearable electronic device to maintain its structural integrity under biologically originated strains such as human motions or through machines.…”