Triggering the sintering of silver nanoparticles at room temperature

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1943-1948

  Magdassi, Shlomo ^a   Grouchko, Michael ^a   Berezin, Oleg ^b   Kamyshny, Alexander ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MOBIChem Scientific Engineering Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coalescence; Plastic electronics; Silver nanoparticles; Sintering

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE PATTERNS; ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICES; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; INK-JET PRINTING; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NEW APPROACHES; OPPOSITELY CHARGED POLYELECTROLYTES; PLASTIC ELECTRONICS; PLASTIC SUBSTRATES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SOFT PARTICLES;

COALESCENCE; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; NANOPARTICLES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PLASTICS; PRINTING; SINTERING;

SILVER;

EID: 77951731621     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn901868t     Document Type: Article

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