Polymer-Assisted Direct Deposition of Uniform Carbon Nanotube Bundle Networks for High Performance Transparent Electrodes
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ArticleKAUST Grant Number
KUS-C1-015-21Date
2009-05-07Online Publication Date
2009-05-07Print Publication Date
2009-06-23Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/599217
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Flexible transparent electrodes are crucial for touch screen, flat panel display, and solar cell technologies. While carbon nanotube network electrodes show promise, characteristically poor dispersion properties have limited their practicality. We report that addition of small amounts of conjugated polymer to nanotube dispersions enables straightforward fabrication of uniform network electrodes by spin-coating and simultaneous tuning of parameters such as bundle size and density. After treatment in thionyl chloride, electrodes have sheet resistances competitive with other reported carbon nanotube based transparent electrodes to date. © 2009 American Chemical Society.Citation
Hellstrom SL, Lee HW, Bao Z (2009) Polymer-Assisted Direct Deposition of Uniform Carbon Nanotube Bundle Networks for High Performance Transparent Electrodes. ACS Nano 3: 1423–1430. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn9002456.Sponsors
S.L.H. would like to thank the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program for funding. Additionally, Dr. Melburne LeMieux, Mike Rowell, Dr. Mark Topinka, and Dr. Mike McGehee provided useful insight. We would like to thank Stanford University Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. This publication was partially based on work supported by the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics (Award No KUS-C1-015-21), made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)Journal
ACS NanoPubMed ID
19422197ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1021/nn9002456