Reduced graphene oxide/copper nanowire hybrid films as high-performance transparent electrodes

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1811-1816

  Kholmanov, Iskandar N ^a,b   Domingues, Sergio H ^a,c   Chou, Harry ^a   Wang, Xiaohan ^a   Tan, Cheng ^a   Kim, Jin Young ^a   Li, Huifeng ^a   Piner, Richard ^a   Zarbin, Aldo J G ^c   Ruoff, Rodney S ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

copper nanowires; hybrid films; reduced graphene oxide; transparent conductive films

Indexed keywords

COPPER NANOWIRES; CU NANOWIRES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HARSH ENVIRONMENT; HYBRID FILM; PRUSSIAN BLUE; PURE CU; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; SUBSTRATE ADHESION; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILMS; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

CONDUCTIVE FILMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; GRAPHENE; NANOWIRES;

COPPER;

EID: 84874417283     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3060175     Document Type: Article

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