Highly Transparent, Conductive, Flexible Resin Films Embedded with Silver Nanowires

In this article, a low sheet resistance and highly transparent silver nanowire (AgNW) resin composite film was
demonstrated, which was prepared by a simple and efficacious two-step spin-coating method. By burying the AgNWs below the
surface of the transparent resin matrix which was cured at 150 °C in air, we achieved a uniform, highly transparent, conductive,
flexible film. Compared to the reported transparent electrodes, this composite transparent and conductive film showed 10 Ω/□
sheet resistance and nearly 90% mean optical transmittance over the UV−visible range simultaneously. Undergoing hundreds of
cycles of tensile and compression folding, the composite film slightly increased its sheet resistance by less than 5%, displaying
good electromechanical flexibility. These characteristics of the composite AgNW-resin films were expected to be used in
applications of flexible optoelectronics.