Direct electrospinning of Ag/polyvinylpyrrolidone nanocables

Jie Song, Menglin Chen, Mikkel Buster Olesen, Chenxuan Wang, Rasmus Havelund, Qiang Li, Erqing Xie, Rong Yang, Peter Bøggild, Chen Wang, Flemming Besenbacher, Mingdong Dong

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Abstract

Core-sheath silver nanowire/polyvinylpyrrolidone (AgNW/PVP) nanocables have been fabricated via an efficient single-spinneret electrospinning method. The core-sheath structure is revealed by combining several characterization methods. A possible formation mechanism of the AgNW/PVP nanocable involving a strong stretching during the electrospinning process is proposed. Further, electrical measurements were performed on AgNW/PVP nanocables as well as bare AgNWs, which indicated the nanocables became insulating due to the isolation of highly conductive AgNWs by insulating PVP sheath. Therefore, the described fabrication method holds potential for the fabrication of low-cost metal/polymer composite materials for nanoelectronic applications in general.
Original languageEnglish
JournalNanoscale
Volume3
Issue12
Pages (from-to)4966-4971
ISSN2040-3364
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011

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