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. 2023 Aug 5;123(16):9982–10078. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00139

Figure 15.

Figure 15

Directional alignment. (A) Schematic illustration of mechanical stretching of PEDOT:PSS for rearrangement of polymer chain structures. Reproduced with permission from ref (510). Copyright 2013 Wiley-VCH. (B) Schematic illustration of polymer chains under mechanical deformation. Reproduced with permission from ref (573). Copyright 2016 Springer Nature under the CC BY 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. (C) Schematic illustration of solution shearing of AgNW solution to directional alignment. (D) SEM image of aligned AgNWs. (E) The sheet resistance of aligned AgNW showing higher conductivity than random percolated AgNW. (F) The transmittance of aligned AgNW-based transparent conductor and random percolated conductor. Reproduced from ref (512). Copyright 2015 American Chemical Society. (G) Schematic illustration of solution shearing of organic semiconductors using the micropatterned channel. (H) AFM images of aligned organic semiconductors and spin-coated counterparts. Reproduced with permission from ref (575). Copyright 2019 Springer Nature. (I) Schematic illustration of floating assembly to align and pack AgNW networks using surfactant dropping. (J) Optical images of aligned AgNW conductors showing high stretchability. Reproduced with permission from ref (515). Copyright 2021 American Association for the Advancement of Science.