Silver-Copper Alloy Nanoinks for Ambient Temperature Sintering
There is an increasing need to reduce the silver content in silver-based inks or pastes and achieve low-temperature sintering for scalable and low-cost production of printed wearable electronics. This need depends on the ability to control the metal composition and the surface properties of the nano...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1992. - 38(2022), 18 vom: 10. Mai, Seite 5633-5644 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2022
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Alloys Silver 3M4G523W1G Copper 789U1901C5 |
| Zusammenfassung: | There is an increasing need to reduce the silver content in silver-based inks or pastes and achieve low-temperature sintering for scalable and low-cost production of printed wearable electronics. This need depends on the ability to control the metal composition and the surface properties of the nanoinks. Alloying silver with copper provides a pathway for meeting the need in terms of cost reduction, but little is known about the composition controllability and the low-temperature sintering capability. We report herein a scalable wet chemical synthesis of bimetallic silver-copper alloy nanoinks with room temperature sintering properties. The bimetallic alloy nanoparticles with a controllable composition can be formulated as stable nanoinks. The nanoinks printed on paper substrates are shown to sinter under room temperature. In addition to composition dependence, the results reveal an intriguing dependence of sintering on humidity above the printed nanoink films. These findings are assessed based on theoretical simulation of the sintering processes via surface-mediated sintering and interparticle necking mechanisms in terms of nanoscale adsorption, adhesion and diffusion, and surface free energies. Implications of the findings for room temperature fabrication of wearable sensors are also discussed |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Completed 11.05.2022 Date Revised 05.07.2022 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1520-5827 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00221 |