The present invention provides a solvent composition for use in an ink for producing an electronic device using a printing method, the solvent composition being capable of improving the printing accuracy of the ink, being fired at low temperatures, and suppressing the amount of ash remaining after firing to a very low amount. The solvent composition for electronic device production of the present invention is for use in an ink for producing an electronic device by a printing method, and contains a miscible product of: a solvent and a compound represented by Formula (1) below. In Formula (1), R represents the same or different aliphatic hydrocarbon groups having 1 or more carbon atoms. ##STR00001##

Processes for tailoring the macroscopic shape, metallic composition, mechanical properties, and pore structure of nanoporous metal foams prepared through combustion synthesis via direct write 3D printing of metal energetic ligand precursor inks made with water and an organic thickening agent are disclosed. Such processes enable production of never before obtainable metal structures with hierarchical porosity, tailorable from the millimeter size regime to the nanometer size regime. Structures produced by these processes have numerous applications including, but not limited to, catalysts, heat exchangers, low density structural materials, biomedical implants, hydrogen storage medium, fuel cells, and batteries.

A stretchable mounting board that includes a stretchable substrate having a main surface, a stretchable wiring disposed on the main surface of the stretchable substrate, a mounting electrode section electrically connected to the stretchable wiring, solder electrically connected to the mounting electrode section and including bismuth and tin, and an electronic component electrically connected to the mounting electrode section with the solder interposed therebetween. The mounting electrode section has a first electrode layer on a side thereof facing the stretchable wiring and which includes bismuth and tin, and a second electrode layer on a side thereof facing the solder and which includes bismuth and tin. A concentration of the bismuth in the first electrode layer is lower than a concentration of the bismuth in the second electrode layer.

Disclosed are a flexible printed circuit, a flexible apparatus and a display device. The flexible printed circuit includes: a circuit bonding region, a flat and straight region, and a bent region located between the circuit bonding region and the flat and straight region; where the bent region has an opening structure.

Provided are biphasic compositions including a quantity of a conductive liquid and a plurality of a particulate suspended in the quantity of conductive liquid, wherein there is sufficient wetting between the solid particles and the conductive liquid and wherein the resistance of the compositions are less than the resistance for a bulk conductor when strained as defined by Pouillet's law. Also provided are stretchable circuit board assemblies including the biphasic compositions and methods of using the stretchable circuit board assemblies including the biphasic compositions.

An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a conductive material that allows a low electric resistance to be generated, and that is obtained by using an inexpensive and stable conductive material composition containing no adhesive. The conductive material can be provided by a producing method that includes the step of sintering a first conductive material composition that contains silver particles having an average particle diameter (median diameter) of 0.1 μm to 15 μm, and a metal oxide, so as to obtain a conductive material. The conductive material can be provided also by a method that includes the step of sintering a second conductive material composition that contains silver particles having an average particle diameter (median diameter) of 0.1 μm to 15 μm in an atmosphere of oxygen or ozone, or ambient atmosphere, at a temperature in a range of 150° C. to 320° C., so as to obtain a conductive material.

A method for making a via (3) in a carrier layer (1) made of a ceramic comprising:

providing the carrier layer (1),

realizing a passage recess (2) in the carrier layer (1),

at least partially filling the passage recess (2) with a paste (3), and

performing a bonding process, in particular an active soldering process or a DCB process, for bonding a metallization (5) to the carrier layer (1), the via (3′) being realized from the paste (3) in the passage recess (2) when the bonding process is performed.

A stretchable wiring board that includes: a stretchable substrate; a first wiring line on the stretchable substrate; an insulating layer overlapping a first part of the first wiring line in a plan view of the stretchable wiring board; and a second wiring line overlapping the first part of the first wiring line in the plan view with the insulating layer interposed therebetween. The insulating layer has at least one first notch, and in the plan view, the at least one first notch does not overlap the first wiring line and overlaps the second wiring line.

It is proposed to provide a transfer method of a high viscosity functional material, such as a conductive paste, onto a receiving substrate, the method comprising the steps of: providing a plate having a cavity surface that includes at least one cavity; providing the cavity with a resistive heating device and control circuitry connected to the heating device; providing a functional material in the at least one cavity, having a material composition that, when heated by the heating device, generates a gas at an interface between the cavity surface in the cavity and the functional material, to transfer the functional material from the at least one cavity by the gas generation onto the receiving substrate.

According to the present disclosure, a support structure for lighting devices, e.g. LED lighting devices, is provided with an electrically insulating core layer having a first and a second mutually opposed surfaces, with mounting locations for electrically-powered light radiation sources on the first surface, a network of electrically conductive lines printed on said first surface, at least some of said electrically conductive lines extending between the mounting locations and fixed locations on the first surface, and electrical distribution lines of electrically conductive material on the second surface of the core layer, and electrically conductive vias extending through core layer and electrically coupling the electrical distribution lines on the second surface with the electrically conductive lines at said fixed locations on the first surface.