Recyclable and Flexible Starch-Ag Networks and Its Application in Joint Sensor

Sai Liu; Cong Chen; Dongwei Zhang; Guanping Dong; Dongfeng Zheng; Yue Jiang; Guofu Zhou; Jun-Ming Liu; Krzysztof Kempa; Jinwei Gao

doi:10.1186/s11671-019-2957-3

Recyclable and Flexible Starch-Ag Networks and Its Application in Joint Sensor

Nanoscale Res Lett. 2019 Apr 5;14(1):127. doi: 10.1186/s11671-019-2957-3.

Authors

Sai Liu¹, Cong Chen¹, Dongwei Zhang¹, Guanping Dong^{1

2}, Dongfeng Zheng¹, Yue Jiang³, Guofu Zhou⁴, Jun-Ming Liu⁵, Krzysztof Kempa⁶, Jinwei Gao⁷

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Advanced Materials, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510006, China.
² School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China.
³ Institute for Advanced Materials, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510006, China. [email protected].
⁴ Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Information Materials and Technology and Institute of Electronic Paper Displays, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510006, China.
⁵ Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
⁶ Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467, USA.
⁷ Institute for Advanced Materials, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510006, China. [email protected].

Abstract

Flexible transparent conductive electrodes are essential component for flexible optoelectronic devices and have been extensively studied in recent years, while most of the researches are focusing on the electrode itself, few topics in material green and recyclability. In this paper, we demonstrate a high-performance transparent conductive electrode (TCE), based on our previous cracking technology, combined with a green and recyclable substrate, a starch film. It not only shows low R_s (less than 1.0 Ω sq^-1), high transparency (> 82%, figure of merit ≈ 10,000), but also provides an ultra-smooth morphology and recyclability. Furthermore, a series of biosensors on human joints are demonstrated, showing great sensitivity and mechanical stability.

Keywords: Optoelectronics; Recyclability; Sensor; Starch-ANs; Ultra-smooth morphology.

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