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Graphene-Based Conducting Inks for Direct Inkjet Printing of Flexible Conductive Patterns and Their Applications in Electric Circuits and Chemical Sensors

Lu HuangYi Huang( )Jiajie LiangXiangjian WanYongsheng Chen( )
Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials and Center for Nanoscale Science & TechnologyInstitute of Polymer ChemistryCollege of ChemistryNankai UniversityTianjin300071China
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A series of inkjet printing processes have been studied using graphene-based inks. Under optimized conditions, using water-soluble single-layered graphene oxide (GO) and few-layered graphene oxide (FGO), various high image quality patterns could be printed on diverse flexible substrates, including paper, poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) and polyimide (PI), with a simple and low-cost inkjet printing technique. The graphene-based patterns printed on plastic substrates demonstrated a high electrical conductivity after thermal reduction, and more importantly, they retained the same conductivity over severe bending cycles. Accordingly, flexible electric circuits and a hydrogen peroxide chemical sensor were fabricated and showed excellent performances, demonstrating the applications of this simple and practical. The results show that graphene materials—which can be easily produced on a large scale and possess outstanding electronic properties—have great potential for the convenient fabrication of flexible and low-cost graphene-based electronic devices, by using a simple inkjet printing technique.

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Huang L, Huang Y, Liang J, et al. Graphene-Based Conducting Inks for Direct Inkjet Printing of Flexible Conductive Patterns and Their Applications in Electric Circuits and Chemical Sensors. Nano Research, 2011, 4(7): 675-684. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-011-0123-z

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Received: 27 November 2010
Revised: 04 March 2011
Accepted: 04 March 2011
Published: 25 March 2011
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