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Highly flexible, transparent, and conductive silver nanowire-attached bacterial cellulose conductors

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A simple, rapid method for developing conductive, ultrafine, and high aspect ratio silver nanowires (AgNWs) is reported. Transparent and flexible nanocomposites were fashioned from bacterial cellulose (BC) and AgNWs in a very straightforward and direct manner without the addition of materials or the need for specific facilities. The as-prepared BC/AgNWs composite thin films were able to demonstrate acceptable transparency (near 80% at 550 nm), high flexibility, good mechanical strength (18.95 MPa) and stable conductivity (7.46 Ω sq−1) under various bending states.

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This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51641303), the 111 Project (B17021), the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, The State Scholarship Fund from China Scholarship Council (201706790088), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20150155), the Innovation Program for Graduate Education in Jiangsu Province (KYLX16_0794) and (KYCX17_1437), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (JUSRP51621A and JUSRP11701).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Eco-Textiles, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China

    Pengfei Lv, Huimin Zhou, Min Zhao, Dawei Li, Di Wang, Jieyu Huang, Yibing Cai & Qufu Wei

  2. State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

    Keyu Lu

  3. Fiber and Polymer Science, North Carolina State University, 2401 Research Drive, Campus Box 8301, Raleigh, NC, 27695-8301, USA

    Lucian Amerigo Lucia

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Lv, P., Zhou, H., Zhao, M. et al. Highly flexible, transparent, and conductive silver nanowire-attached bacterial cellulose conductors. Cellulose 25, 3189–3196 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-018-1773-8

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