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Particle based conductive silver ink customized for ink jet printing on cellulose electro-active paper

Mohammad Abu Hasan Khondokera, Seong Cheonl Muna, Jaehwan Kim*a

aDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University, 253 Yonghyun-Dong, Nam-Ku

Incheon 402-751, Korea

ABSTRACT

A previously synthesized silver nanoparticle based conductive silver ink was used in this work to print conductive

electrodes on cellulose electro-active paper (EAPap) by using an inkjet printer. Then, Inkjet printed cellulose EAPap

experienced a post-deposition heat treatment-sintering process to enhance electrical conductivity of printed electrodes by

converting those printed patterns into continuous metallic state. The dependences of electrical bulk resistivity of printed

electrodes on both sintering temperature and sintering time were checked. It was found that, higher sintering

temperatures and longer sintering process result lower resistivity. In addition, the uniformity of the thicknesses of printed

electrodes through transverse direction and the relationship between thickness and the number of printing also had been

analyzed. Those printed electrodes also showed very good adhesion on cellulose EAPap.

Keywords: Conductive silver ink, inkjet printing, cellulose EAPap, printed electrodes, electrical resistivity, sintering

process

1. INTRODUCTION

As a natural biodegradable polymer, cellulose is everywhere. Huge biomass production of cellulose made it as

inexhaustible raw material for environmentally friendly and biocompatible products [1]. The discovery of cellulose as a

smart material dates back to 2006 when Kim et. al. reported the actuation effect of cellulose electro-active paper

(EAPap) [2]. Cellulose EAPap with printed electrode has potentiality in microelectromechanical system (MEMS)

application. Electrodes can be inkjet printed by microscale patterning of lines or dots by ejecting tiny droplets of 10–100

µm diameter [3]. Moreover, promising technologies, such as inkjet printing/electrohydrodynamic jet printing

(EHDP)/drop-on-demand patterning, have been paid attention to print conductive patterns for fabricating flexible,

lightweight, disposable devices and polymer based flexible microelectronics [4–7]. They are one-step processes and do

not need coating and etching.

In this work, an inkjet printer was used to find best printing quality by changing several printing conditions (no. of

nozzle, position of nozzle, firing voltage etc.) and silver ink content. Finally, around 40 µm wide electrodes were

successfully printed on cellulose EAPap with synthesized silver ink. Cellulose EAPap’s were prepared from regenerated

cellulose films by the procedure described elsewhere [8-10].

2. EXPERIMENTAL

2.1 Synthesis process of silver ink

Firstly, silver nanoparticles were synthesized through modified polyol process [11]. In brief, 1.02 g of silver nitrate and

10.2 g of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) were completely dissolved in separate ethylene glycol (EG). PVP solution was

heated up to an appropriate temperature (100–160 °C) in an oil bath. Then the temperature was kept fixed. When it

turned out to be light yellow, silver nitrate solution was then injected slowly into this solution while stirring vigorously.

Then this solution was allowed to be gently stirred for 4 h at fixed temperature. This step results in the formation of

PVP-capped silver nanoparticles. The resulting solution was then dispersed in ethanol. Finally, the dispersed solution

was centrifuged at 9000 rpm for 60 min.

*jaehwan@inha.ac.kr; phone 82-32-874-7325; fax 82-32-832-7325; eapap.com

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This washing step was repeated three times and the final residue of silver nanoparticles with size less than 50 nm was

obtained. Then previous research work [12] was followed to synthesize silver ink from silver particles. A very small

amount of viscous hydroxyethyl-cellulose (HEC) solution and diethylene glycol (DEG) were added to the residue of

silver nanoparticles. Here, HEC acts as a viscosifier to increase the viscosity [13] and DEG acts as a surfactant to lower

the surface tension of the solution. Then the solid content ranging of about 45 % was adjusted by adding 50-50%

solution of deionized water and DEG. Finally, the conductive silver ink was achieved by sonicating for 1 h and