Water-bath assisted convective assembly of aligned silver nanowire films for transparent electrodes.

@article{Duan2015WaterbathAC,
  title={Water-bath assisted convective assembly of aligned silver nanowire films for transparent electrodes.},
  author={Shengkai Duan and Qiaoli Niu and Jun-feng Wei and Jie-bing He and Yi’an Yin and Yong Zhang},
  journal={Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP},
  year={2015},
  volume={17 12},
  pages={
          8106-12
        }
}
Manipulating Ag nanowire (AgNW) assembly to tailor the opto-electrical properties and surface morphology could improve the performance of next-generation transparent conductive electrodes. In this paper, we demonstrated a water-bath assisted convective assembly process at the temporary water/alcohol interface for fabricating hierarchical aligned AgNW electrodes. The convection flow plays an important role during the assembly process. The assembled AgNW film fabricated via three times orthogonal… 
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