A conductive ink composition is disclosed comprising conductive solids and a medium, wherein the conductive solids comprise glass flakes coated with an electrically conductive coating. Optionally, the electrically conductive coating may comprise a conductor selected from the group comprising silver, nickel, gold, metal nanoparticles, indium tin oxide, fluorine doped tin oxide. The conductive ink composition may comprise a percentage by weight of glass flakes coated with an electrically conductive coating less than or equal to 50%. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing the conductive ink composition, a printed article, and a method of manufacturing the printed article.

Provided is an ink composition used for image formation by an ink jet method. The ink composition includes plate-like metal particles that include a metal element having a standard oxidation-reduction potential nobler than −1.65 V, that have an average equivalent circle diameter of 10 nm or more and less than 500 nm, and that have an average aspect ratio, which is the ratio of the average equivalent circle diameter to an average thickness, of 3 or more. Also provided are an ink set, an image forming method, and a printed matter.

The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a layer containing a plurality of linear carbyne chains, the method comprising (a) applying laser ablation on a piece of shungite in a liquid, followed by laser irradiation of the resultant carbon structures within the liquid in the presence of stabilizing metal nanoparticles, thereby to form a colloidal solution; and (b) subjecting at least a portion of said colloidal solution to AC voltage while the solution is allowed to dry, thereby to create a two-dimensional layer containing a plurality of carbyne chains.

Provided is a thermosetting conductive paste which is able to be processed at low temperature (for example, at 250° C. or less), and which enables the achievement of a conductive film that has low resistivity. The conductive paste which contains (A) a conductive component, (B) a thermosetting resin, (C) a compound having a specific structure, and (D) a solvent.

Provided is a thermosetting conductive paste which is able to be processed at low temperature (for example, at 250° C. or less), and which enables the achievement of a conductive film that has low resistivity. The conductive paste which contains (A) a conductive component, (B) a thermosetting resin, (C) a compound having a specific structure, and (D) a solvent.

A cable can be used to facilitate electrical connections between electrical components. The cable can include a plurality of cable strands forming a void space. An adhesive paste can be applied within the void space. The adhesive paste can include a plurality of metallic nanoparticles. The metallic nanoparticles can fuse with each other and with the plurality of cable strands when energy is applied the connector and the cable. The metallic nanoparticles can include a surfactant, which can be displaced as pressure is applied. Heat can be applied to the adhesive paste to fuse the metallic nanoparticles.

Disclosed herein are method and design rules for making polyelemental systems with specific heterostructures, including tetra-phase nanopartides with as many as six junctions. In accordance with an embodiment, a method of making a tetra-phase polyelemental nanoparticle using tri-phase nanoparticle architectures can include selecting two or more triphase nanoparticle architectures, wherein the two or more tri-phase nanoparticle architectures are one or more striped tri-phase architectures, one or more pie-shaped tri-phase architectures, or combinations thereof; identifying from the selected two or more tri-phase nanoparticle architectures groups of metals for generating each of the two or more tri-phase nanoparticle architectures; contacting a tip coated with an ink to a substrate to form a nanoreactor, the ink comprising block copolymer and the metals from the groups of metals identified for generating each of the two or more tri-phase nanoparticle architectures; and annealing the nanoreactors under conditions sufficient to synthesize a tetra-phase polyelemental nanoparticle.

A composite material including a nanocellulose core and a metal shell is provided. The metal shell covers a surface of the nanocellulose core. The composite material is nanosized and has high mechanical strength. Additionally, a method of manufacturing the composite material is also provided.

A system to manufacture a plurality of dies may include an etching tool, an electrically-conductive-adhesive-composition, a heat-applying-extraction-tool and a porous substrate cooperating with an evacuation component. The etching tool uses an ion beam that is configured to singulate a plurality of dies on a wafer with an ion etching process. The electrically-conductive-adhesive-composition is located between the wafer and a porous substrate carrying the wafer during the ion etching process. The electrically-conductive-adhesive-composition adheres the wafer to the porous substrate to keep the dies in place during the ion etching process. The electrically-conductive-adhesive-composition also aids in conducting electrons away from the wafer as a drain during the ion etching process. The heat-applying-extraction-tool applies heat to an individual die during a handling process of the manufacturing process in order to melt the electrically-conductive-adhesive-composition through the porous substrate to an evacuation component in order to then pick up an individual die singulated from the wafer.

Examples described include composite nanofibers sheets that have been “infiltrated” with a polymer (i.e., the polymer has flowed past a surface of the nanofiber sheet and into at least some of spaces within the sheet defined by the nanofibers). An adhesive nanofiber tape is formed when the infiltrating polymer is an adhesive and the adhesive infiltrates the nanofiber sheet from a one major surface of the nanofiber sheet. In other described examples, some portions of nanofibers in the sheet have been conformally coated with at least one metal layer.