An optically transparent, flexible, patterned and conductive silk biopolymer film (Conference Presentation)

Muhammad Umar; Kyungtaek Min; Sunghwan Kim

doi:10.1117/12.2250690

19 April 2017 An optically transparent, flexible, patterned and conductive silk biopolymer film (Conference Presentation)

Muhammad Umar, Kyungtaek Min, Sunghwan Kim

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Proceedings Volume 10101, Organic Photonic Materials and Devices XIX; 1010109 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2250690
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Transparent, flexible, and conducting films are of great interest for wearable electronics. For better biotic/abiotic interface, the films to integrate the electronics components requires the patterned surface conductors with optical transparency, smoothness, good electrical conductivity, along with the biofriendly traits of films. We focus on silk fibroin, a natural biopolymer extracted from the Bombyx mori cocoons, for this bioelectronics applications. Here we report an optically transparent, flexible, and patterned surface conductor on a silk film by burying a silver nanowires (AgNW) network below the surface of the silk film. The conducting silk film reveals high optical transparency of ~80% and the excellent electronic conductivity of ~15 Ω/sq, along with smooth surface. The integration of light emitting diode (LED) chip on the patterned electrodes confirms that the current can flow through the transparent and patterned electrodes on the silk film, and this result shows an application for integration of functional electronic/opto-electronic devices. Additionally, we fabricate a transparent and flexible radio frequency (RF) antenna and resistor on a silk film and apply these as a food sensor by monitoring the increasing resistance by the flow of gases from the spoiled food.

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Muhammad Umar, Kyungtaek Min, and Sunghwan Kim "An optically transparent, flexible, patterned and conductive silk biopolymer film (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10101, Organic Photonic Materials and Devices XIX, 1010109 (19 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2250690

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