A breakthrough development in nanofabrication could help support the development of new wireless, flexible, high-performance transparent electronic devices.
Researchers from the University of Glasgow's James Watt School of Engineering have developed a new method of interfacial imprinting ultra-thin nanowires onto bendable, transparent polymeric substrates.
The team's paper, titled "Laser-Engineered Interfacial-Dielectrophoresis Aligned Nanowire Networks for Transparent Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Films," is published in ACS Nano.
The technique, developed at the University's meLAB and led by researcher Jungang Zhang, works by pairing laser engineering with a technique which uses electric fields to precisely arrange nanoscale materials, and could easily be scaled up to enable manufacture without the need to use cleanroom facilities.