the effect of pvp molecular weight and synthesis temperature on silver nanowire morphology

In recent years conductive and flexible electrodes have been considered a suitable alternative to indium-doped tin oxide(ito) in optoelectronic applications. because of the excellent solution processability of silver nanowires(agnws) they can produce flexible conductive electrodes onto plastic substrates such as polyethylene terephthalate(pet). in order to optimize the morphology of agnws, this study focused on changes in the agnws morphology with alternating polyvinylpyrrolidone(pvp) molecular weight and temperature. these processing parameters control the ratio of the population of nanoparticles to nanowires.