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Nano Research 2023, 16(8): 11012-11017 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5762-3
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Size effect enabling additive-free MXene ink with ultrahigh conductivity for screen printing of wireless electronics

Show Author's Information Shuaishuai Chen1,§,  Huaqiang Fu1,§,  Yunfa Si1,  Xueyu Liu2,  Zhe Wang1,  Yixue Duan1,  Zixin Zhang1,  Hao Feng1,  Xin Zhao2,3( ),  Daping He1,2( )
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Hubei Engineering Research Center of RF-Microwave Technology and Application, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
School of Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China

§ Shuaishuai Chen and Huaqiang Fu contributed equally to this work.

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screen printing, size effect, additive-free, MXene ink, wireless electronics, radio frequency identification (RFID)
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Chen S, Fu H, Si Y, et al. Size effect enabling additive-free MXene ink with ultrahigh conductivity for screen printing of wireless electronics. Nano Research, 2023, 16(8): 11012-11017. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5762-3
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Facile preparation of additive-free inks with both high viscosity and high conductivity is critical for scalable screen printing of wireless electronics, yet very challenging. MXene materials exhibit excellent conductivity and hydrophilicity, showing great potential in the field of additive-free inks for screen printing. Here, we demonstrate the synthesis of additive-free two-dimensional (2D) titanium carbide MXene inks, and realize screen-printed MXene wireless electronics for the first time. The viscosity of MXene ink is solely regulated by tuning the size of MXene nanosheet without any additives, hence rendering the printed MXene film extremely high conductivity of 1.67 × 105 S/m and fine printing resolution down to 0.05 mm on various flexible substrates. Moreover, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags fabricated using the additive-free MXene ink via screen printing exhibit stable antenna reading performance and superb flexibility. This article, thus offers a new route for the efficient, low-cost and pollution-free manufacture of printable electronics based on additive-free MXene inks.


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Size effect enabling additive-free MXene ink with ultrahigh conductivity for screen printing of wireless electronics

Show Author's information Shuaishuai Chen1,§, Huaqiang Fu1,§, Yunfa Si1, Xueyu Liu2, Zhe Wang1, Yixue Duan1, Zixin Zhang1, Hao Feng1, Xin Zhao2,3( ), Daping He1,2( )
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Hubei Engineering Research Center of RF-Microwave Technology and Application, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
School of Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China

§ Shuaishuai Chen and Huaqiang Fu contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Facile preparation of additive-free inks with both high viscosity and high conductivity is critical for scalable screen printing of wireless electronics, yet very challenging. MXene materials exhibit excellent conductivity and hydrophilicity, showing great potential in the field of additive-free inks for screen printing. Here, we demonstrate the synthesis of additive-free two-dimensional (2D) titanium carbide MXene inks, and realize screen-printed MXene wireless electronics for the first time. The viscosity of MXene ink is solely regulated by tuning the size of MXene nanosheet without any additives, hence rendering the printed MXene film extremely high conductivity of 1.67 × 105 S/m and fine printing resolution down to 0.05 mm on various flexible substrates. Moreover, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags fabricated using the additive-free MXene ink via screen printing exhibit stable antenna reading performance and superb flexibility. This article, thus offers a new route for the efficient, low-cost and pollution-free manufacture of printable electronics based on additive-free MXene inks.

Keywords: screen printing, size effect, additive-free, MXene ink, wireless electronics, radio frequency identification (RFID)

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Received: 12 February 2023
Revised: 28 March 2023
Accepted: 05 April 2023
Published: 27 June 2023
Issue date: August 2023

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22279097), the Hainan Provincial Joint Project of Sanya Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City (No. 520LH054), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (WUT: 2021IVA66).

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