Printable electrical conductors
First Claim
1. An electrical conductor, comprising a network of interconnected metallic nodes, the nodes comprising a metallic composition, the network defining a plurality of pores having an average pore volume of less than about 10,000,000 nm3, and the electrical conductor having a resistivity of not greater than about 10×
- the resistivity of the bulk metallic composition.
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Abstract
An electrical conductor formed from one or more metallic inks. The electrical conductor comprises a network of interconnected metallic nodes. Each node comprises a metallic composition, e.g., one or more metals or alloys. The network defines a plurality of pores having an average pore volume of less than about 10,000,000 nm3. The electrical conductors advantageously have a high degree of conductivity, e.g., a resistivity of not greater than about 10× the resistivity of the (bulk) metallic composition, which forms the individual nodes.
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59 Claims
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1. An electrical conductor, comprising a network of interconnected metallic nodes, the nodes comprising a metallic composition, the network defining a plurality of pores having an average pore volume of less than about 10,000,000 nm3, and the electrical conductor having a resistivity of not greater than about 10×
- the resistivity of the bulk metallic composition.
- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. An electrical conductor, comprising a plurality of touching metallic nanoparticles, wherein the nanoparticles are tightly packed and form a plurality of voids, wherein at least about 95 percent of the nanoparticles, by number, are not sintered to any adjacent nanoparticles, the electrical conductor having a resistivity of not greater than about 20×
- the resistivity of the bulk metallic composition.
- View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59)
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