Issue 11, 2020

Modified silicone rubber for fabrication and contacting of flexible suspended membranes of n-/p-GaP nanowires with a single-walled carbon nanotube transparent contact

Abstract

Rubber materials are the key components of flexible optoelectronic devices, especially for the light-emitting diodes based on arrays of inorganic nanowires (NWs). This paper reports on polydimethylsiloxane-graft-polystyrene (PDMS-St) as a new flexible substrate of GaP NW array structures. The NWs were encapsulated by the newly introduced G-coating method to substitute the inefficient mainstream spin-coating. To further exploit the flexibility and the stretchability of the NW/PDMS-St structures, the ferrocenyl-containing polymethylhydrosiloxane was synthesized and successfully used as an electrode for the NWs. In order to make an alternative highly efficient transparent electrode, a new application of conductive single-walled carbon nanotubes was demonstrated. The novel materials and methods demonstrated unsurpassed mechanical stability of the fabricated flexible electronic devices.

Graphical abstract: Modified silicone rubber for fabrication and contacting of flexible suspended membranes of n-/p-GaP nanowires with a single-walled carbon nanotube transparent contact

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
13 Nov 2019
Accepted
24 Jan 2020
First published
27 Jan 2020

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020,8, 3764-3772

Modified silicone rubber for fabrication and contacting of flexible suspended membranes of n-/p-GaP nanowires with a single-walled carbon nanotube transparent contact

V. Neplokh, F. M. Kochetkov, K. V. Deriabin, V. V. Fedorov, A. D. Bolshakov, I. E. Eliseev, V. Yu. Mikhailovskii, D. A. Ilatovskii, D. V. Krasnikov, M. Tchernycheva, G. E. Cirlin, A. G. Nasibulin, I. S. Mukhin and R. M. Islamova, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8, 3764 DOI: 10.1039/C9TC06239D

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