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Hybrid windshield-glass heater for commercial vehicles fabricated via enhanced electrostatic interactions among a substrate, silver nanowires, and an over-coating layer

Show Author's Information Sae Mi Lee1,§,  Ji Hun Lee1,§,  Sora Bak1,  Keunsik Lee1,  Yang Li1,  Hyoyoung Lee1,2,3( )
Center for Smart Molecular MemoryDepartment of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066 Seoburo, Jangan-gu, Suwon440-746Republic of Korea
Center for Smart Molecular MemoryDepartment of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066 Seoburo, Jangan-gu, Suwon440-746Republic of Korea
Center for Smart Molecular MemorySKKU Advanced Institute of Nano Technology (SAINT)Sungkyunkwan University, 2066 Seoburo, Jangan-gu, Suwon440-746Republic of Korea

§ These authors contributed equally to this work.

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silver nanowires, transparent windshield-glass heater, heating glass, adhesive polymers, material science
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Lee SM, Lee JH, Bak S, et al. Hybrid windshield-glass heater for commercial vehicles fabricated via enhanced electrostatic interactions among a substrate, silver nanowires, and an over-coating layer. Nano Research, 2015, 8(6): 1882-1892. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-014-0696-4
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We introduce a transparent windshield-glass heater produced via transparent electrodes using silver nanowire (AgNW) networks for conventional use in the automobile industry. A high-quality conducting hybrid film is deposited on a plasma-treated glass substrate by spraying AgNWs, immersing the sprayed product in positively charged adhesive polymer solution, and then spraying negatively charged graphene oxide (GO) and a silane layer as an over-coating layer (OCL).The results of heating tests conducted after adhesion tests show that the sheet resistance changes with the application of polymer glue. Surprisingly, the transmittance of the film with the GO OCL is higher than that of the film without the GO OCL. Heating and defrosting tests are carefully conducted via infrared (IR) monitoring. Adhesive-polymer-treated and GO-protected AgNW transparent glass heaters exhibit the best performance with low sheet resistance; thus, through strong electrostatic interaction among the substrate, adhesive layer, and OCL, our AgNW hybrid glass heater can reach the target temperature with a standard vehicle voltage of 12 V in a short period of time.


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Hybrid windshield-glass heater for commercial vehicles fabricated via enhanced electrostatic interactions among a substrate, silver nanowires, and an over-coating layer

Show Author's information Sae Mi Lee1,§, Ji Hun Lee1,§, Sora Bak1, Keunsik Lee1, Yang Li1, Hyoyoung Lee1,2,3( )
Center for Smart Molecular MemoryDepartment of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066 Seoburo, Jangan-gu, Suwon440-746Republic of Korea
Center for Smart Molecular MemoryDepartment of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066 Seoburo, Jangan-gu, Suwon440-746Republic of Korea
Center for Smart Molecular MemorySKKU Advanced Institute of Nano Technology (SAINT)Sungkyunkwan University, 2066 Seoburo, Jangan-gu, Suwon440-746Republic of Korea

§ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

We introduce a transparent windshield-glass heater produced via transparent electrodes using silver nanowire (AgNW) networks for conventional use in the automobile industry. A high-quality conducting hybrid film is deposited on a plasma-treated glass substrate by spraying AgNWs, immersing the sprayed product in positively charged adhesive polymer solution, and then spraying negatively charged graphene oxide (GO) and a silane layer as an over-coating layer (OCL).The results of heating tests conducted after adhesion tests show that the sheet resistance changes with the application of polymer glue. Surprisingly, the transmittance of the film with the GO OCL is higher than that of the film without the GO OCL. Heating and defrosting tests are carefully conducted via infrared (IR) monitoring. Adhesive-polymer-treated and GO-protected AgNW transparent glass heaters exhibit the best performance with low sheet resistance; thus, through strong electrostatic interaction among the substrate, adhesive layer, and OCL, our AgNW hybrid glass heater can reach the target temperature with a standard vehicle voltage of 12 V in a short period of time.

Keywords: silver nanowires, transparent windshield-glass heater, heating glass, adhesive polymers, material science

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Received: 13 September 2014
Revised: 12 December 2014
Accepted: 14 December 2014
Published: 03 March 2015
Issue date: June 2015

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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIP) (Grant No. 2006-0050684).

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