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Standard for bending nano-silver lines to improve expensive commercial chips

Have people thought deeply about why tiny silver nanowires have changed the field of electronic devices? The huge application potential of silver nanowires is the main reason for its concern, and people are also very optimistic about its future application prospects. The standard for bending silver nanowires brings new directions for scientists.

According to KAUST's experimental research, it is shown that the new arrangement of silver nanowires makes them more durable. These silver nanowires form a transparent conductive film that is used in solar cells, strain sensors and future mobile phones. If nanotechnology is applied to electronic devices, rigorous testing of individual tiny components is required to ensure product availability. No one expected that silver nanowires have great potential as connected displays, and can be used in flexible, near-transparent grids, as well as on touch screens or solar cells.

KAUST's experiment was to improve expensive commercial chips. Scientists can use TEM to detect nanoparticles and study individual silver nanowires in detail. This allows TEM to design and fabricate sample chips that characterize and manipulate nanomaterials with unparalleled spatial resolution. However, commercial chips contain very thin films to support the nanoparticles. The KAUST research team improved the new technology by adding silver nanowires from a custom TEM chip suspended on a platinum electrode, increasing the power at different frequencies until the silver nanowires failed due to current heating. In the end, the researchers found that linear silver nanowires at a certain high current density would cause breaks in the points determined by local structural defects.

The KAUST research team had a whimsy and another set of experiments. When the silver nanowires began to bend, interesting behaviors took place. The sample chip is bent under high pressure without breaking, and shows a healing phenomenon. The reason is that the carbon coating on the outside of the wire is bonded together. The use of electronic equipment will be repeated and bent repeatedly by the end user, meaning that it is unrealistic to limit the application of silver nanowires to a straight line structure.

As the ideal material for flexible, folded and bent electronic devices, silver nanowires have extraordinary application potential. The use of silver nanowires to improve expensive commercial chips will improve performance and reduce production costs without sacrificing standards. With the development of science and technology, the application prospects imagined by silver nanowires will appear next to human beings.