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Conductive ink Technology

Introduction

Electronic components are the main components.

Electronics are required to be integrated on the surface of the paper.

Conductive ink technology is introduced to print the electronic components on the substrate.

The ink contained conductive materials and is used in conductive pen, as paint and in
printers.Electronics are the main elements of the Physical component of Lab on chip.

Electronics are integrated on the paper chip using conducting ink technology.

Ink is infused with a conductive material, like

 Graphite

 Silver

These materials enables ink to conduct electricity.

Fig shows Circuit on paper

Printing Material

Several conductive materials could be considered for preparing conductive ink, such as

Conductive polymers

1. Carbon

2. Organic Metallic compounds

3. Metal precursors
 4. Metal NPs

Conductive Ink

Conductive ink is being used for drawing circuits for flexible electronic , displays. Conductive
silver, copper or carbon-based inks are typically used to print electronic tracks, electrodes and
antennas. Transparent conductors such as indium tin oxide (ITO) and more recently poly(3,4-
ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) and graphene are utilized in
printing of components such as solar cells and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Both
inorganic and organic materials can be printed, and various commercially available functional
inks enable printed functionality to be implemented.

A novel conductive metal ink made of copper nanosheets coated with silver nano particles is
developed.

The novel ink can be used in a pen to draw a functioning, flexible electric circuit on regular
printer paper.

Preparation

Aq soln. of silver nitrate is combined with polyacrylic acid and diethanolamine, which serve as
the capping agent and the reducing agent.

A size of about 400 nm is achieved after processing , and ethanol to convert their liquid state.

After centrifugation, the hydroxyethyl cellulose is mixed, to act as a binder.

Conductive INK Pen

A conductive pen is a liquid polymer delivery system a standard ink pen.

The polymer is electrically conductive and is rapid to dry.

They are used to create or repair conductive traces on printed circuit boards.

Silver-infused conductive inks used in modern transit tickets.

NP and conductive Ink

Most conductive inks are based on metal NPs

NPs are inserted into a solvent at a certain loading ratio to provide the wanted viscosity.

It results in a liquid solution, called the “the metal ink,” with the NPs in suspension.

Average size of the particle varies between 10 and 100 nm.

How to check the functioning of conductive ink.

To show that the ink could conduct electricity, the scientists added small LED chips (lights) to
the drawing.

When circuit is connected to a battery LED lits up and show the working of the conductive ink
on a paper.
Fig shows a picture drawn with conductive ink glow with green LED.

Conducting Ink functionality on a folded paper. and LED

To test the ink’s flexibility, of the conductive ink the paper green LED were integrated on to the
paper.

The paper was folded several times and conductivity was checked.

It was that the ink maintained 80 to 90 percent of its conductivity.

Bending process of copper-ink-based circuits under stress