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In situ preparation of silver nanoparticles decorated graphene conductive ink for inkjet printing

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Conductive ink can be widely applied in printed electronics to print high conductivity and flexible electrodes, especially for large-area formats with low cost considerations. In this article, we demonstrated that the in situ prepared silver nanoparticles decorated graphene conductive ink was suitable for flexible electronics. By using liquid phase exfolication method and reducing the silver salt to nano silver at the same system which addressed the heterogeneous issue of silver decorated graphene. The inkjet-printed graphene features attained low resistivity of 20 ± 1Ω/□ after a thermal anneal at 400 °C for 30 min while showed uniform morphology, compatibility with flexible substrates.

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This study was supported by Hunan Provincial Science & Technology Department Major Project with Contract No. HCSN16003.

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    Dunying Deng, Shuo Feng, Minhao Shi & Chong Huang

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Deng, D., Feng, S., Shi, M. et al. In situ preparation of silver nanoparticles decorated graphene conductive ink for inkjet printing. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 28, 15411–15417 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-017-7427-z

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