Supporting Information

Flexible and transparent silver nanowires/biopolymer film for high-

efficient electromagnetic interference shielding

Gehuan Wang, Lele Hao, Xindan Zhang, Shujuan Tan*, Ming Zhou, Weihua Gu,

Guangbin Ji*

College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and

Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, P. R. China

*Corresponding Author: Prof. Dr. GuangbinJi

Tel: +86-25-52112902; Fax: +86-25-52112626

E-mail: gbji@nuaa.edu.cn

Address: 29# Yudao Street, Nanjing 210016, P.R China

Fig. S1. The contact angle of (a) as-synthesized Ag NWs and (b) gelatin-based

substrate.

Fig. S2. SEM image of Ag NWs deposited on (a) gelatin-based substrate and (b)

polyethylene terephthalate. The red circles are the junctions of crossed Ag NWs, and

the arrows point to the embedded Ag NWs.

Fig. S3. Optical transmittance spectra of the Ag NW/G films.

Fig. S4. XRD spectra of gelatin-based, pristine Ag NW250/G, pristine G/Ag NW250.0/G,

aged Ag NW250.0/G, and aged G/Ag NW250.0/G films.

Table S1 The properties of the as-prepared Ag NW/G and G/Ag NW/G film.

Materials Thickness/μm Transmittance/% Rs SE

unencapsulated encapsulated unencapsulate encapsulated
 d /Ω sq- /dB

Ag 12.1 24.0 89.60 89.26 109.9 8.83

NW111.1/G
Ag 12.5 25.3 87.52 86.67 58.7 12.60

NW138.9/G
Ag 13.6 26.0 82.71 82.35 37.6 16.68

NW166.7/G
Ag 15.2 26.8 79.98 79.70 19.3 20.94

NW194.4/G
Ag 17.6 27.4 75.95 75.94 6.9 30.07

NW222.2/G
Ag 18.8 28.0 72.15 71.98 2.9 37.74

NW250.0/G