Silver nanowire percolation network soldered with graphene oxide at room temperature and its application for fully stretchable polymer light-emitting diodes

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1590-1600

  Liang, Jiajie ^a   Li, Lu ^a   Tong, Kwing ^a   Ren, Zhi ^a   Hu, Wei ^a   Niu, Xiaofan ^a   Chen, Yongsheng ^b   Pei, Qibing ^a  

^a Engineering IV   (United States)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

graphene oxide; light emitting diode; silver nanowires; stretchable; transparent conductive electrode

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894639397     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn405887k     Document Type: Article

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