The thin film PDMS pattern with a thickness of 200 μm, a width of 200 μm, and a total length of 15.8 cm on the PET substrate was prepared using a laser and used as template. The synthesized
OSC ink with blue dye (seen more BTK animal study clearly) was dropped to the center of the template using a syringe (20 μL per drop). Due to the good wetting and film-forming ability of the ink, it will flow along the template track until it fills the whole track, especially after plasma treatment with oxygen. After sintering at 120°C for 30 s, the continuous conductive track can be fabricated, and the total resistor R ab decreased to 4.6 Ω measured by a multimeter (middle image of Figure 5) with a width of 200 μm and thickness of 22 μm according to the surface profile. Conclusions In summary, an unusual kind of high-efficiency, transparent organic silver conductive ink (OSC ink) was synthesized with silver acetate as silver carrier, ethanolamine as additive, and different kinds of aldehyde-based materials as reduction
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