Hydrothermal Fabrication of Silver Nanowires-Silver Nanoparticles-Graphene Nanosheets Composites in Enhancing Electrical Conductive Performance of Electrically Conductive Adhesives

Hongru Ma; Jinfeng Zeng; Steven Harrington; Lei Ma; Mingze Ma; Xuhong Guo; Yanqing Ma

doi:10.3390/nano6060119

Hydrothermal Fabrication of Silver Nanowires-Silver Nanoparticles-Graphene Nanosheets Composites in Enhancing Electrical Conductive Performance of Electrically Conductive Adhesives

Nanomaterials (Basel). 2016 Jun 21;6(6):119. doi: 10.3390/nano6060119.

Authors

Hongru Ma¹, Jinfeng Zeng², Steven Harrington³, Lei Ma⁴, Mingze Ma⁵, Xuhong Guo^{6

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Affiliations

¹ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China. mahongru@stu.shzu.edu.cn.
² School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China. zengjinfeng@stu.shzu.edu.cn.
³ Tianjin International Center of Nanoparticle and Nanosystems, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China. stevenharrington92@tju.edu.cn.
⁴ Tianjin International Center of Nanoparticle and Nanosystems, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China. maleixinjiang@tju.edu.cn.
⁵ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China. mamingze001@126.com.
⁶ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China. guoxuhong@ecust.edu.cn.
⁷ State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China. guoxuhong@ecust.edu.cn.
⁸ Key Laboratory for Green Processing of Chemical Engineering of Xinjiang Bingtuan, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China. guoxuhong@ecust.edu.cn.
⁹ Engineering Research Center of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering of Xinjiang Bingtuan, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China. guoxuhong@ecust.edu.cn.
¹⁰ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China. mayanqing@shzu.edu.cn.
¹¹ Key Laboratory for Green Processing of Chemical Engineering of Xinjiang Bingtuan, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China. mayanqing@shzu.edu.cn.
¹² Engineering Research Center of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering of Xinjiang Bingtuan, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China. mayanqing@shzu.edu.cn.

Abstract

Silver nanowires-silver nanoparticles-graphene nanosheets (AgNWs-AgNPs-GN) hybrid nanomaterials were fabricated through a hydrothermal method by using glucose as a green reducing agent. The charge carriers of AgNWs-AgNPs-GN passed through defect regions in the GNs rapidly with the aid of the AgNW and AgNP building blocks, leading to high electrical conductivity of electrically conductive adhesives (ECA) filled with AgNWs-AgNPs-GN. The morphologies of synthesized AgNWs-AgNPs-GN hybrid nanomaterials were characterized by field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM), and high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). X-ray diffraction (XRD) and laser confocal micro-Raman spectroscopy were used to investigate the structure of AgNWs-AgNPs-GN. The resistance of cured ECAs was investigated by the four-probe method. The results indicated AgNWs-AgNPs-GN hybrid nanomaterials exhibited excellent electrical properties for decreasing the resistivity of electrically conductive adhesives (ECA). The resistivity of ECA was 3.01 × 10^-4 Ω·cm when the content of the AgNWs-AgNPs-GN hybrid nanomaterial was 0.8 wt %.

Keywords: electrically conductive adhesives; graphene; hydrothermal; nanosilver; resistivity.