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Sci Rep. 2015 Dec 11;5:17703. doi: 10.1038/srep17703.

Rapid Dissolving-Debonding Strategy for Optically Transparent Paper Production.

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Jinbo Chen, Xiaogang Han, Zhiqiang Fang, Fan Cheng, Bin Zhao, Pengbo Lu, Jun Li, Jiaqi Dai, Steven Lacey, Raphael Elspas, Yuhao Jiang, Detao Liu, Liangbing Hu

Affiliations

  1. State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510640, People's Republic of China.
  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States.

PMID: 26657809 PMCID: PMC4675992 DOI: 10.1038/srep17703

Abstract

Transparent paper is an alternative substrate for electronic devices due to its unique properties. However, energy-intensive and/or time-consuming procedures currently limit the scalable production of transparent paper. In this report, we demonstrate a rapid process to fabricate optically transparent paper with regenerative cellulose fibers (RCFs) by employing a dissolving-debonding strategy. The RCFs have an average width of 19.3 μm and length of several hundred microns and are prepared into transparent paper by vacuum filtration. This new dissolving-debonding approach enables high production efficiency while creating transparent paper with excellent optical and mechanical properties.

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