Liang and Graham publish in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces - The researchers demonstrated that surface modifying groups can be utilized to influence both film morphology and electrical conductivity in silver nanowire-polymer composites.  This work shows that an adsorbed polymer on the silver nanowire surface can be displaced by thiols with varying end groups, and through choice of thiol end group the electrical and morphological properties of the composite, as well as the solvents utilized to disperse the silver nanowires, can be manipulated.  Using this approach the authors demonstrate a one-step process for fabricating homogeneous composite transparent electrodes.  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2015, 7 (39), pp 21652–21656.



Link:  http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.5b06489