Kim, Youn-Soo Lee, Eun-Jong Lee, Jun-Taek Hwang, Do-Kyung Choi, Won-Kook Kim, Jin-Yeol 2024-01-20T03:32:58Z 2024-01-20T03:32:58Z 2021-09-03 2016-09 https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/123759 We have developed highly transparent and electrically conductive hybrid-gel films based on poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) and thin silver nanowires (Ag NWs) with diameters of 20 nm. Ionic gels based on PEDOT:PSS are ionic conductors consisting of anionic PSS and cationic PEDOT. Ag NWs were combined with the conductive PEDOT:PSS chains to assemble electrically conductive gels. The hybrid-gel films were created with a structure that incorporates Ag NWs into the conductive PEDOT chain matrix. We found that the conductivity significantly increased with Ag NW content. The optimized Ag NW-PEDOT:PSS hybrid-gel films exhibited excellent performance with a high transmittance of 92% and a small haze of 1.1% at a low sheet resistance of 20 Ω sq−1, and good mechanical flexibility. Because of the high-performance, it is believed that the Ag NW-PEDOT:PSS hybrid-gel electrodes are highly suitable for practical use in flexible electronics. English Royal Society of Chemistry High-performance flexible transparent electrode films based on silver nanowire-PEDOT:PSS hybrid-gels Article 10.1039/c6ra06590b 1 RSC Advances, v.6, no.69, pp.64428 - 64433 RSC Advances 6 69 64428 64433 N scie scopus 000379442400032 2-s2.0-84978807240 Chemistry, Multidisciplinary Chemistry Article STABILITY flexible transparent electrode PEDOT:PSS silver nanowire hybridgels