Three-dimensional highly conductive graphene-silver nanowire hybrid foams for flexible and stretchable conductors.
Graphene foams have showed huge application potentials owing to their unique 3D structure and superior properties. Thus, it is highly desired to develop a simple and effective pathway to fabricate high performance graphene-based foams. Here, we present a polymer template-assisted assembly strategy for fabricating a novel class of graphene/AgNW hybrid foams. The hybrid foams show 3D ordered microstructures, high thermal stability, and excellent electrical and mechanical properties, and demonstrate huge application potential in the fields of flexible and stretchable conductors. Importantly, the polymer-template assisted assembly technique is simple, scalable, and low-cost, providing a new synthesis protocol for various multifunctional graphene hybrid foam-based composites.
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Key Lab of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Aging, Shanghai Jiao Tong University , 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China.
Chao
C
Wu
Lijun
L
Fang
Xingyi
X
Huang
Pingkai
P
Jiang
assembly; flexible conductors; graphene; hybrid foams; silver nanowires