I found these copper nanowires on sigma aldrich (sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/aldrich/807958) but I can't find any examples in literature of researchers using them to make electrodes. I was wondering if anyone has experience with making copper nanowire based electrodes and if there are any nanowires (like the ones from sigma aldrich) I could purchase off the shelf to make these.
you can check the following data bases
Worldwide Suppliers for Nanowires - Nanowerk
https://www.nanowerk.com › nanowire-database
https://www.alibaba.com ›
Sigma -Aldrich was also selling this product. It appears it has been discontinued. Perhaps you can check with the local dealer.
Hello Bert,
many thanks for sharing this very interesting technical question with the RG community. Personally I'm not a proven expert in this field. However, my suggestion would be to avoid buying the copper nanowires from commercial suppliers because you never really know how pure and homogeneous they are. It is quite seasy to prepare copper wires following the straightforward protocol described in the following useful literature reference:
Extremely Simple and Rapid Fabrication of Flexible Transparent Electrodes Using Ultralong Copper Nanowires
Article An extremely simple and rapid fabrication of flexible transp...
Luckily this paper has been posted by the authors as public full text on RG so that you can download it as pdf file. In this article not only a simple synthesis of copper nanowires is described in detail, but also the reparation of flexible transparent electrodes.
I hope this helps. Good luck with your work!
Hi Bert,
You may make an inquiry at Alfa Chemistry, they offer kinds of good-quality nanomaterials.
https://nanomaterials.alfa-chemistry.com/inquiry
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