Nanosilver
inks are printing materials, ideal for printing electronic devices on
papers or plastics. Nanosilver ink products are ideal for low
viscosity printing, flexographic, a feature of gravure, and inkjet
printing. These products are specifically engineered for high volume
printing techniques such as gravure, offset, and flexographic and are
gaining interest to satisfy the demand of high throughput processes,
even though they are not in competition with inkjet inks in terms of
commercialization and development. As inkjet processing is suitable
for high-resolution printing, it is considered as the primary area of
focus for a large number of nanosilver ink products available in the
industry. Even though the price of printable nanosilver products is
comparatively high in context to per weight unit bases, they still
deliver a similar level of conductivity when compared with
conventional materials, but with less number of materials. In
addition, owing to its small size, nanosilver products eases up lower
temperature sintering and intrinsically higher resolutions in printed
patterns. Although nanosilver inks have been under development, these
claims have however, not increased the consumption of printed
nanosilver products on a large scale.
Large
scale companies such as Agfa-Gevaert N.V. are focusing towards
developing innovative nanosilver products in the printing industry.
The company recently developed a nanosilver ink SI-P1000x having a
superior performance which would allow the users implement
miniaturization and certain key applications as well as reduce the
cost of the materials used.
In
addition to its outperformance with silver flake inks, SI-P1000x has
been considered as an effective alternative for indium tin oxide
(ITO) in display applications. The product would be available in bulk
orders later this year. With emerging technologies and enhancement of
alternatives, the market for nanosilver inks is becoming increasingly
competitive with mature incumbents. Furthermore, fluctuating base
metal prices have led to various manufacturers focus towards
developing the appropriate technology and implement suitable market
strategies in order to benefit from the changing market landscape.
High price of nanosilver products have prevented its use in certain
traditional electronic applications, and also haven’t gained any
support even during the rapid increase of prices. As most of these
modern electronic applications haven’t gained any momentum yet, the
industry for nanoslver inks and pastes has to shift its focus towards
existing products where nanosilver products have immediate and
apparent competitive edge.
Large
scale companies such as Bayer MaterialScience have developed
nanosilver ink products for inkjet printing applications. Albeit the
nanosilver technology plays a prominent role in the inkjet printing
industry, such trends might not be seen for other printing
techniques. In addition, conventional silver materials are being
manufactured into inks which are compatible with printing techniques,
such as flexographic and gravure, which lowers the importance of
nanosilver technology in the printing industry. Even though it may
take quite some time to bring down the prices of smaller nanosilver
ink and pastes products as compared to huge quantities of
conventional silver inks and pastes, the industry for nanosilver is
expected to gain momentum over the next few years. Demand for
nanosilver inks is also expected to rise as printing precision is
gaining importance due to miniaturization of electronic products
across certain applications. Nanosilver ink products possess the
capability to produce finer, more reliable line widths as compared to
conventional silver alternatives.
Agfa-Gevaert
N.V., Bayer MaterialScience, Methode Electronics, Inc. are some of
the manufacturers present in the nanosilver inks industry.
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