Selecting Conductive Materials for Manufacturing Inks

Conductive inks and pastes provide critical performance characteristics for printed and flexible electronic systems. The choice of materials is varied – metallics such as silver and copper, nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes and graphene are among the more common selections – and each material offers its own advantages to the final conductive system. For example, Roy Bjorlin, global commercial director, Electronic Materials, Sun Chemical, said that the primary materials used for manufactur...