Highly Conductive Silver Nanowire Transparent Electrodes Hybridized with Laminated Multi-Layer MXene

Abstract

Silver nanowires (AgNWs) and new-type two-dimensional material MXene have shown great prospects for applications in new-generation flexible electronic devices due to their brilliant properties. In this work, high-performance silver nanowire/MXene hybrid transparent conductive electrodes (TCEs) were prepared by a solution method. It studied the influence of AgNW concentration on the photoelectric properties of TCEs. Then, several-layer or even single-layer MXene were obtained by a delamination process and were added to the AgNW networks to prepared flexible hybrid electrodes on polyethylene naphtholate (PEN) substrates. The hybrid TCEs showed a low sheet resistance of 24.4 Ω/sq with the transmittance of 90.6% at 550nm. Moreover, the MXene sheets covered on the surface could improve the conductivity of the film and block the oxidation of silver nanowires. The results mean that the novel AgNW/MXene TCEs have great potential for the practical applications of high-performance flexible electronic devices.