Screen-Printed Corrosion-Resistant and Long-Term Stable Stretchable Electronics Based on AgAu Microflake ConductorsShow others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, ISSN 1944-8244, E-ISSN 1944-8252, Vol. 15, no 9, p. 12372-Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
High-throughput production methods such as screen printing can bring stretchable electronics out of the lab into the market. Most stretchable conductor inks for screen printing are based on silver nanoparticles or flakes due to their favorable performance-to-cost ratio, but silver is prone to tarnishing and corrosion, thereby limiting the stability of such conductors. Here, we report on a cost-efficient and scalable approach to resolve this issue by developing screen printable inks based on silver flakes chemically coated by a thin layer of gold. The printed stretchable AgAu conductors reach a conductivity of 8500 S cm-1, remain conductive up to 250% strain, show excellent corrosion and tarnishing stability, and are used to demonstrate wearable LED and NFC circuits. The reported approach is attractive for smart clothing, as the long-term functionality of such devices is expected in a variety of environments. © 2023 The Authors.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Chemical Society , 2023. Vol. 15, no 9, p. 12372-
Keywords [en]
Binary alloys, Corrosion resistance, Flexible electronics, Gold alloys, Gold coatings, Screen printing, Silver, Silver alloys, Throughput, Corrosion-resistant, Gold, High-throughput, NFC, Printed electronics, Production methods, Screen-printed, Silver flake, Soft electronics, Stretchable electronics, Silver nanoparticles, corrosion, silver flakes, stability
National Category
Materials Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-64237DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c22199Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85149141779OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-64237DiVA, id: diva2:1744515
Note
Correspondence Address: V. Beni, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB, Sweden;
The authors would like to thank Yuyang Li for FIB-SEM measurements and Covestro for generously providing Platilon TPU substrates and Baymedix PU solution. This project was financially supported by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research and the Swedish Government Strategic Research Area in Materials Science on Advanced Functional Materials at Linköping University (Faculty Grant SFO-Mat-LiU No. 2009-00971).
2023-03-202023-03-202024-05-27Bibliographically approved