2008 Volume 47 Issue 6 Pages 536-542
In recent years, highly concentrated inks of gold and silver nanoparticles have been successfully produced by using a special type of protective polymer and a mild reductant. Metal nanoparticles posses unique properties that they do not exhibit in their bulk states. One of properties of metal nanoparticles is a lowering of melting point. Metal nanoparticles are useful as conductive materials with heat treatment at low temperature. Ag and Pd nanoparticles are useful as catalyst of electoless plating. In this article, preperation of Metal nanoparticles and thei application to conductive circuit pattern formation with ink jet printing and/or electoroless plating are described.
