Highly stretchable and transparent nanomesh electrodes made by grain boundary lithography

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Guo, Chuan Fei ^a   Sun, Tianyi ^a   Liu, Qihan ^b   Suo, Zhigang ^b   Ren, Zhifeng ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; ELASTOMER; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; NANOMESH; NANOWIRE; SERPENTINE;

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTRODE; FULLERENE; GOLD;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRODE; GRAIN BOUNDARY LITHOGRAPHY; NANOFABRICATION; OXIDATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TENSION; THERMOSTABILITY;

EID: 84893271253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4121     Document Type: Article

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