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In this report, we present a rapid and efficient polyol method - the solution-phase approach for the large scale synthesis of silver nanowires with diameters in the range of 40 - 50 nm, and lengths up to 20 μm. Although the polyol process is a popular method of preparing metal nanostructures, so far most of the published works mainly focused on the synthesis process regardless of amount of surfactants. In this article, we successfully synthesized large-scale uniform silver nanowires with high aspect ratios by introducing the long-chain PVP (MW = 58 000) and investigated the effect of the amount of PVP on the synthesis of Ag nanowires by studying their morphologies, structures and optical properties. The dependency of nanowire morphology and aspect ratio on synthesis parameters was shown via SEM images. The diameter of nanowires decreased when the molar ratio of PVP to silver nitrate was increased. Further more, the molar ratios decided the morphology (particle, rod or wire) of the Silve solution. Synthesized silver nanowires were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). This aqueous dispersions of silver nanowires were used to prepare thin, flexible, transparent, conducting films on polyethylene terephthalate substrate (PET) by spraying method. The prepared silver nanowire films on PET substrate had a transparency of 82% and sheet resistance of 10 Ω/□.



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Issue: Vol 16 No 4 (2013)
Page No.: 52-60
Published: Dec 31, 2013
Section: Natural Sciences - Research article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32508/stdj.v16i4.1596

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Hoang, T., & Tran, T. (2013). Investigating the effect of capping agent PVP on the synthesis of silver nanowires by polyol method and its application as flexible transparent conducting electrode. Science and Technology Development Journal, 16(4), 52-60. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.32508/stdj.v16i4.1596

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