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Research Article

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

Shuaishuai Chen1,§Huaqiang Fu1,§Yunfa Si1Xueyu Liu2Zhe Wang1Yixue Duan1Zixin Zhang1Hao Feng1Xin 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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Additive-free MXene ink with high viscosity and conductivity is achieved by regulating the size of MXene nanosheets. The successful demonstration of wireless electronics screen printed with the obtained ink puts forward a new direction for the preparation of MXene ink to meet the requirements for printed electronics in the future.

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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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Cite this article:
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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Received: 12 February 2023
Revised: 28 March 2023
Accepted: 05 April 2023
Published: 27 June 2023
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