Highly Conductive and Flexible Paper of 1D Silver-Nanowire-Doped Graphene

Abstract

A novel architecture of graphene paper is proposed to consist of "1D metallic nanowires/defect-free graphene sheets". Highly conductive and flexible papers of 1D silver nanowires (Ag NWs) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) graphene sheets as an example were fabricated by a simple filtration method. CVD graphene paper possesses much higher electrical conductivity of 1097 S/cm, compared with other reported carbon-related papers (graphene, carbon nanotube, etc.). With the addition of Ag NWs to form Ag NWs/graphene paper, the electrical conductivity is further improved up to 3189 S/cm, even higher than ∼2000 S/cm of bulk graphite. Ag NWs/graphene papers have very good flexibility with the only <5% loss of electrical conductivity over 500 times mechanical bending. Highly conductive composite papers have potential in high-performance, flexible energy conversion and storage devices.