Conductive Inks for 3D Printing

Additive Manufacturing

A 3-D printed device comprising one or more interconnect structures, the interconnect structures comprising a plurality of conductive particles and one or more diblock or triblock copolymers; the diblock or triblock copolymers having an A-B, A-B-A, or A-B-C block-type structure in which the A-blocks and C-blocks are an aromatic-based polymer or an acrylate-based polymer and the B-blocks are an aliphatic-based polymer. These 3-D printed devices may be formed using a method that comprises providing a conductive ink composition; applying the conductive ink composition to a substrate in a 3-D solvent cast printing process to form one or more interconnect structures; and drying the one or more interconnect structures formed from the conductive ink composition. The dried interconnect structures exhibit a conductivity equal to or greater than 1×105 S/m without having to be subjected to any post-processing sintering treatment.

Researchers

Jennifer Lewis / Brad Duncan / Maxwell Plaut / Theodore Fedynyshyn

Departments: Lincoln Laboratory
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials: Polymers / Industrial Engineering & Automation: Manufacturing & Equipment
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials

  • 3-d printed devices formed with conductive inks and method of making
    United States of America | Granted | 11,267,981
  • 3-d printed devices formed with conductive inks and method of making
    Patent Cooperation Treaty | Published application

Publications

Bradley Duncan, Maxwell Plaut, Benjamin Barclay, John Russo, Theodore Fedynyshyn, Sebastien G. M. Uzel, Robert Weeks, and Jennifer A. Lewis. "Development of 3D Printable Composite Inks for Millimeter Wave Applications." Chemical, Microsystem, and Nanoscale Technologies Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory; John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 2018. 

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