Fabrication of copper nanowire coated by silver nanocrystal for protection of oxidation transparent conductive electrode

Silver is relatively low-abundance in nature and copper have inherent instability to oxidation. The most potential candidate should combine high performance with abundance in nature and excellent stability. In this article, we demonstrated a material with silver nanocrystal coating on to CuNWs by facile galvanic replacement. The analysis of scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive X-ray, and mapping was used for investigating that silver nanocrystal has coated on the CuNWs. This research also studied how the effect of Ag nanocrystal coating to the stability of TCEs CuAgNWs by IV-meter analysis. © 2019 Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Switzerland.