Flexible transparent and conductive films of reduced-graphene-oxide wrapped silver nanowires

Abstract A novel hybrid material based on silver nanowires (AgNWs) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) wrapped network structure is prepared. AgNWs/rGO films are fabricated by simple filtrating a graphene oxide and AgNWs mixture solution which is well-dispersed in ethylene glycol with sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate as a stabilizing agent. Compared to the single materials of rGO or AgNWs, the formation of this hybrid material has a low sheet resistance (15.33 Ω/sq) and high transparency (80.1% at 550 nm). In addition, the hybrid AgNWs/rGO film prepared by a facile fabrication approach also shows a high flexibility and prominent stability, which is suitable for flexible electronics applications.