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Research Article | Open Access

Highly Conductive Fractal-structured Silver Particles for Preparing Flexible Printed Circuits via Screen Printing

Sufeng Zhang1,2( ), Chen Hua1,2, Bin He1,2( ), Yongwei Li1, Qiusheng Zhou1, Pengbing Chang1, Xuxu Hu1, Lina Liu1
Shaanxi Provincial Key Lab of Papermaking Technology and Specialty Paper Development, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Light Chemistry Engineering Education, Key Lab of Paper Based Functional Materials of China National Light Industry, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, 710021, China
Key Lab of Pulp and Paper Science & Technology of Ministry of Education/Shandong Province, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Ji'nan, Shandong Province, 250353, China
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Abstract

Fractal-structured silver particles (FSSPs) are conductive materials with a micron-scale trunk and nanoscale branches, and are characterized with high electrical conductivity and high connectivity. In this study, FSSPs were added to an aqueous additive solution for synthesizing a conductive ink, which was used to prepare two types of printing electrodes via screen printing. The first type included two flexible printed electrodes (FPEs): an FPE on a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film and an FPE on paper. The second one was a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-embedded FPE. The PET-based FPE exhibited high electrochemical stability when its sheet resistance was 0.38 Ω/sq for a 50% (w/w) content of FSSPs in the prepared conductive ink. Moreover, the embedded FPE demonstrated excellent mechanical properties and high chemical stability. In addition, the embedded structure was endowed with stretchability, which is important for different devices, such as flexible biomedical sensors and flexible electronics.

Keywords

screen printingstretchabilityfractal-structure silver particlesembedded electrodes

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Paper and Biomaterials
Volume 6 Issue 2,
April 2021
Pages 16-28
DOI: 10.12103/j.issn.2096-2355.2021.02.002
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Zhang S, Hua C, He B, et al. Highly Conductive Fractal-structured Silver Particles for Preparing Flexible Printed Circuits via Screen Printing. Paper and Biomaterials, 2021, 6(2): 16-28. https://doi.org/10.12103/j.issn.2096-2355.2021.02.002

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Received: 31 December 2020
Accepted: 19 February 2021
Published: 25 April 2021
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