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Electrical, thermal and microwave shielding properties of printable silver nanowires

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Silver nanowires find use in a myriad of applications, including communication systems, sensors, medical devices and electrical equipment. Temperature-dependent electrical and thermal properties of chemically derived silver nanowires are rarely explored. In the present work, seed-mediated synthesis of silver nanowires has been carried out, and their electrical and thermal conductivity at 300 K is found to be 1.848 × 107 S/m and 64.8 W/mK, respectively. A screen-printable ink of silver nanowires is formulated and printed on low-cost and widely used substrates like paper and cotton fabrics. Flexible printed electrodes could be made possible with uniform printed structures obtained in cotton fabric and paper substrate. The printed pattern exhibited sheet resistance of 0.7 Ω/sq. Screen-printed silver nanowires on paper show shielding efficiency of 99.9% in X band, which promotes them as excellent candidates in fabricating lightweight electronic devices by a one-step printing process.

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The author Aiswarya Remadevi thanks CSIR for the financial support. One of the authors Dijith Kesavapillai Sreedeviamma is thankful to the University Grant Commission, New Delhi, for the financial support. The authors also acknowledge Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, for funding through a Niche Creating Project (MLP 0044). The authors are also thankful to M. R. Chandran and Harish Raj for SEM, Prithviraj and Prabhakar Rao for XRD measurements, K. Firoz and Peer Muhammed for viscosity measurements, Kiran Mohan for TEM and Ajeesh Paulose and Dr Manoj R. Varma for PPMS measurements.

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    Aiswarya Remadevi, Sabitha Ann Jose, Dijith Kesavapillai Sreedeviamma & Kuzhichalil P. Surendran

  2. Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, 201002, India

    Aiswarya Remadevi, Dijith Kesavapillai Sreedeviamma & Kuzhichalil P. Surendran

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Remadevi, A., Jose, S.A., Sreedeviamma, D.K. et al. Electrical, thermal and microwave shielding properties of printable silver nanowires. J Mater Sci 56, 15971–15984 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-021-06327-w

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