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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2025

On-Demand Sintering of Gold Nanoparticles via Controlled Removal of o-Nitrobenzyl Thiol Ligands Under Record-Low Power for Conductive Patterns.

Jisun Im, Charles Heaton, Nur R E Putri, Changxu Liu, Junichi Usuba, Kevin Butler, Michael Fay, Grace G D Han, Helia Hooshmand, Adam Thompson and 4 more

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Jisun ImCentre for Additive Manufacturing, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9112-3828
Charles HeatonCentre for Additive Manufacturing, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
Nur R E PutriCentre for Additive Manufacturing, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1196-7447
Changxu LiuCentre for Metamaterials Research and Innovation, Department of Engineering, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4PY, UK.
Junichi UsubaResearch Center for Net Zero Carbon Society, Institute of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7571-5276
Kevin ButlerSchool of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-4279
Michael FayNanoscale and Microscale Research Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0017-5196
Grace G D HanDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02453, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2918-1584
Helia HooshmandManufacturing Metrology Team, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
Adam ThompsonManufacturing Metrology Team, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
Ricky WildmanCentre for Additive Manufacturing, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
Richard HagueCentre for Additive Manufacturing, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
Lyudmila TuryanskaCentre for Additive Manufacturing, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
Christopher TuckCentre for Additive Manufacturing, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.

Funding

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation FG-2022-18328Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/P031684/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/S021434/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/W006413/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metal nanoparticles-based nanoinks have shown potential for fabricating metallic components essential to the realization of innovative 3D-printed electronic devices. However, fabricating metallic patterns on flexible, heat-sensitive substrates remains challenging due to high temperature and high energy sources, such as intense pulsed light (IPL), involved in the sintering process. Here an efficient sintering method is presented using ultralow power UV by leveraging the photocleavable ligand, o-nitrobenzyl thiol (NT), - functionalized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). The controlled removal of NT ligands upon UV irradiation enhances light absorption by reducing the filling factor of voids in the printed layer, increasing the layer temperature, and facilitating further ligand desorption. This positive feedback mechanism accelerates nanoparticle sintering at several orders of magnitude lower energy than IPL, achieving an electrical conductivity of 7.0 × 10

Indexed as

3D printingadditive manufacturingconductive inksmetal nanoparticlesphotocleavable ligandsphotonic sintering

Identifiers

PMID39887869
PMCPMC11948040

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