无颗粒金属墨水生产商电子has received investment fromQ-TEL, the strategic investment arm of the US Intelligence community founded by the中央情报局, which will help the firm deliver its particle-free conductive inks at scale to its government and commercial partners.
The company doubled up the announcement with the unveiling of its new enhanced particle-free silver ink specifically engineered for use with aerosol jet printing (AJP) processes.
“在Electroninks，我们致力于为客户提供最高的性能产品和解决方案，以满足其新兴制造技术和产品的需求，” Electroninks联合创始人兼总裁Melbs Lemieux说。
“我们的新增强的无颗粒银墨水产品与气溶胶喷气打印技术兼容，使我们的合作伙伴和商业客户可以满足困难的规格。”
电子无粒子的墨水功能
Since its founding in 2013, Texas-based Electroninks has grown into a cutting-edge developer of conductive inks and other products. The firm provides its particle-free conductive inks and related chemistries to industrial customers while also offering its own consumer direct product line, Circuit Scribe.
Based on small-molecule chemistries, the company’s particle-free inks and pastes are engineered to directly replace nanoparticle and flake-based metallic inks and films within electronic devices, displays, interconnects, and wearables applications. The company is reportedly the first to provide particle-free conductive inks in silver, gold, platinum, nickel, and copper.
该公司的最新产品（其无颗粒的银墨水）设计用于使用AJP的细线，低温固化，以提供增强的打印分辨率，电气性能和过程温度条件。
AJP，技术由3D打印机制造商Optomec商业化还有少数其他功能，可以将3D打印到各种2D和3D塑料，陶瓷和金属底物上，将市售导电，介电，半导体和生物油墨打印。该技术适合高尚的电子应用在半导体包装中，显示，aerospace， 和生物医学设备.
By engineering its new silver ink to be compatible with AJP technology, Electroninks is seeking to meet the ultra-fine line printing requirements of its customers. Combined with AJP, the particle-free ink, which is ideal for interconnects and metallization within mobile and wearable products, sensors, and displays, will aid manufacturers in reducing the size, power, and weight of their electronic devices.
“新开发的墨水将一流的电气性能与精美的功能打印结合在一起，” Electroninks高级科学家Garret McKerricher说。“该墨水能够进行超声波气喷射打印，并以高宽高比小于20UM的分辨率展示精美的功能打印。”
无颗粒的银墨水可以在低于15UM的分辨率下打印3D，高达10UM，最多是银电导率的三倍。在保持某些制造和吞吐量规格的同时，可以将墨水固化为不超过120摄氏度。
“The new silver ink provides good resistivity at a low curing temperature, and has high volume output,” added fellow Senior Scientist Yuan Gu. “Combined with room temperature printability, the ink is ideal for 3D surfaces printing on wrap-around and other flexible surfaces.”
引起Q-Tel的注意
Electroninks的新颖无粒子配方及其功能吸引了电子3D打印空间中几个玩家的注意。例如，该公司以前已经与美国国防部（国防部）和收到了150万美元的合同来自US Air Force（USAF）去年开发用于PCB 3D打印的墨水和3D打印机。雷电竞app下载
电子has also teamed up with various industry partners, including materials engineering firm应用材料，全球制药公司默克和跨国集团FujiFilm.
Electroninks无粒子导电油墨的潜力现已吸引了美国情报界的想象力，其风险投资部门IN-Q-Tel与该公司一起成为“额外的战略合作伙伴和投资者”。
According to the partners, the alliance will enable Electroninks to scale up the delivery of its inks and other products to its government partners in national security, as well as for broader commercial use. The amount invested in Electroninks by In-Q-Tel, as well as the fine details of the agreement, have not yet been disclosed, however.
IN-Q-TEL技术架构师Victoria Chernow说：“ IN-Q-Tel了解了Electroninks技术和团队知识可以为互连制造提供的价值。”“我们认为，我们对Elektroninks的战略投资将为我们的合作伙伴的任务需求做出贡献。”
Q-TELhas先前表现出兴趣在3D印刷电子产品的潜力中，拥有支持数字制造公司Voxel8早在2015年发展3D打印电子设备的桌面平台和其他多物质对象。
投资电子3D打印
自启动Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Flexible Hybrid Electronicsin 2015, the DoD and other US defense agencies have shown increasing interest in the field of 3D printed electronics, particularly in recent years.
例如，空军研究实验室（AFRL）与NetFlex, a US consortium dedicated to advancing 3D printed Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE), in 2020. As part of the deal, the DoD is提供多达1.54亿美元的投资在七年的时间里，为支持军事行动的3D印刷电子产品提供资金。
同时，去年宣布了微型分配器制造商nscrypt的全地形nrugged 3D打印机是部署在各种国防部计划中，而美国空军签约的电路板制造专家botfactory开发一个全自动桌面电子3D打印机作为它的一部分“ afwerx”程序.
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特色图片显示Electronink的无粒子银墨水与AJP工艺（例如Optomec）兼容。通过Optomec的照片。
