Li Zeping,Wang Geng,Li Zhongming,Cheng Zhengze,Zhou Guopeng,Li Shan
The transmittance, conductivity, and flexibility are the crucial properties for the development of next-generation flexible electrodes. Achieving a good trade-off between transmittance and conductivity of flexible electrodes has been a challenge because the two properties are inversely proportional. Herein, we reveal a good trade-off between transmittance and conductivity of gold nanomesh (AuNM) can be achieved through appropriately increasing the AuNM thickness no more than 40 nm, the mean free path of electrons in Au metal. The further flexibility investigation indicates that the AuNM electrodes with mesh structure show higher tolerance than the Au bulk film, and the AuNM electrodes with smaller inter-aperture wire width can accommodate more tensile strains than a counterpart with bigger inter-aperture wire width. The simulated results based on finite element analysis (FEA) show good agreement with experimental results, which indicates the fabrication method of versatile nanosphere lithography (NSL) is reliable. These results established a promising approach toward next-generation large-scale flexible transparent AuNM electrodes for flexible electronics.
Na Li,Xuankai Huang,Haiyan Zhang,Zhicong Shi,Yunyong Li,Chengxin Wang
Individual graphene ribbons, which fully exploit the large surface area of graphene sheets, have been fabricated. Constructing these unique structures into efficient macroscopic functional architectures is an important and challenging step towards practical applications. Here, we produce micro-structured interconnected ribbon-like graphene sheets (MRGs), which were induced by the multistage-recrystallization of NaCl templates in a microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition (MPECVD) system. The MRGs along different directions hang in polygonal graphene walls, which connect with each other forming a three dimensional (3D) transparent and self-supporting graphene film (MRG-GF). The MRG-GF with a large surface area, enhanced flexibility and fast ion/electron transport pathways exhibits improved capacitance (4.88 mF cm−2) and super-long cycle life with good cycling stability (capacitance retention was ∼95.5% after 20 000 cycles). Herein, we provide a novel approach for controlled synthesis of graphene ribbons, and graphene ribbon-based functional structures and composites.