Low electrical percolation threshold of silver and copper nanowires in polystyrene composites

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作者
Gelves, Genaro A. [1 ]
Lin, Bin
Sundararaj, Uttandaraman
Haber, Joel A.
机构
[1] Univ Alberta, Dept Chem, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G2, Canada
[2] Univ Alberta, Dept Chem & Mat Engn, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G6, Canada
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10.1002/adfm.200600336
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O6 [化学];
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0703 ;
摘要
Silver and copper nanowires have been synthesized using a scalable method of AC electrodeposition into porous aluminum oxide templates, which produces gram quantities of metal nanowires ca. 25 nm in diameter and up to 5 and 10 mu m in length for Ag and Cu, respectively. The nanowires have been used to prepare polystyrene nanocomposites by solution processing. Electrical resistivity measurements performed on polymer nanocomposites containing different volume fractions of metal indicate that low percolation thresholds of nanowires are attained between compositions of 0.25 and 0.75 vol %.
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