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Flake silver powder has attracted tremendous interesting due to its specially electrical and optical properties. Chemical reduction method with the advantages of reaction conditions easily controlled and mass production is widely used to prepare flake silver particles. In order to more easily prepare flake silver particles, the generation mechanism of flake silver particles is studied by analyzing the impacts of reaction conditions, such as pH value, kinds of silver seeds, kind of surfactant and concentration of raw material. The results show that flake silver particles can be prepared through controlling reaction conditions. Some problems existing in the preparation of flake silver particles are put forward, and future research directions are also proposed.

The performances of three kinds of water-based pigment inks were compared and studied, which include self-made ink, original printing ink and compatible ink. Art paper, matte paper and white card paper were used as the substrates. Testing the contact angle of ink droplets, the spreading, wetting, and drying rate of inks were investigated. The color density and CIE L*a*b* values of the printed samples were measured, to evaluate the hue error and color gamut. The water resistance was studied with corresponding experiments. The result indicates: self-made water-based pigment ink has the smallest contact angle on coated paper, showing a faster drying rate. Its color gamut is similar to the original printing ink on art paper, and the hue error is low. Through the water resistance test, the color density measured on art paper and matte paper had no changes, without color dissolving and color fading, showing good water resistance applicability.

Environment protection has aroused big concern in industrial development nowadays, and the printing industry has always been known as a big paper consumer and environmental pollution "contributor". In 1980s, Europe and the United States pioneered the concept of environment-friendly printing. China has also issued “Regulations for Environmental Labeling Products—Ink” since the 2008, which contains similar provisions of limited demand with those regulations of USA, EU, Japan, New Zealand and other countries. Environment-friendly ink is the key to achieve environment-friendly printing, and fine chemicals as an indispensable component is the sticking point to control. This paper describes the relevant laws of environment-friendly ink, types of environment-friendly colorant and the actual application, such as in inkjet and flexographic printing field.

The RFID antenna is mainly fabricated by metal coil winding, copper or aluminum etching, plating, printing and so on. In this paper, the comparison of above methods is conducted and the progress of the printing method and water-based conductive ink are emphasized. Water-based conductive inks are environmental-friendly, economic, high applicability, and are widely used in screen printing, gravure, flexible printing, inkjet printing, etc. Although starts late and the technology is not very mature, the RFID antenna prepared by printing method has many advantages, such as low cost, high precision, easy operation, variety of substrates, etc. Thus the printing has great potential applications on the fabrication of RFID antenna. Furthermore, water-based conductive inks used in ink-jet printing RFID antenna will be the first choice of printed RFID antenna.

The performance of the dispersion of cobalt blue in organic solvent is studied. The influence of dispersant (type & dosage), pH value, and other dispersion parameters on the stability of cobalt blue dispersion system is tested which shows good stability and excellent dispersion performance with diethylamide glycol ether the solvent, complex formulation (M (KH550): M (KH560): M (A-842) = 1:1:2) the dispersant and 7 the pH value. The characteristics of dispersion system are evaluated through sedimentation experiment and measurement of article size distribution. The most steady dispersion system is formed through high speed shearing force and the size of cobalt blue in this system is about 300nm.

In order to compare different concentration modes' influence on the nano-silver particle size and morphology,we use three methods to refine nano-silver solution prepared in the lab as:1 centrifugal the solution directly,2 deposit the solution with acetone,3 centrifugal the solution with acetone added.Then test the solution processed with particle size distribution,UV-vis and SEM.The result shows that:the particle sizes of the nano-silver solutions enriched with the three methods are 162.5nm,163.5nm,164nm;the peak of the UV-vis absorption curve are 425nm, 426.5nm,427nm,we can see that different methods of enrichment have less influence on the nano-silver particles' size and morphology. Also the same conclusion can be drawn from SEM test.

Antenna of RFID tag is used to spread frequency signals and build wireless connection between the tag and reader. High cost, low production speed and environment pollution exist in the traditional methods of manufacturing antenna. In order to overcome the disadvantages above, the method of printing antenna with conductive ink is being widely researched. So, conductive ink gets more and more attention. In order to study the performances of conductive ink better, conduction mechanism of conductive ink are mainly discussed. The requirements of conductive ink to print antenna are described. The present status of conductive ink in printing antenna is introduced, and research directions in future are also predicted.

In order to anticipate the color of dye ink more accurately, WENZHOU Mernuo Red-10 as an example, who was dissolved in different polarity solvent by magnetic stirring and ultrasonic agitation, the influence for properties of solvent on color of dye was researched with the coating method through contrasting sample papers. The influence for pH values of the solution and adding water to Red-10 solution on color of dye were also researched. It's shown that with the increased polarity of the solution,the absorption wavelength of Red-10 reduced gradually,light shade effect was caused. For the same solvent,with the pH values of the solvent increased,the absorption wavelength of Red-10 reduced gradually,light shade effect was caused.And all the factors affect the L,a,b values of the Red-10 dye's samples.

This study aims to analyse how inks of different colorant present unlike printing quality on selected substrates in inkjet printing. Applying Epson piezoelectric inkjet printer, experiments of printing pigment-based ink and dye-based ink on various substrates (coated art paper, porous photo paper, swellable photo paper, PP synthetic paper, xuan paper and PET-based coated film) were carried out respectively. Using digital microscope, the spreading, penetrating and distributing of ink drops were observed. Water fastness and light fastness were evaluated through aging test and water-immersing test, by measuring the decreasing of optical solid density. Taking the formula of inks and the composition of coating layers into consideration, contrast and analysis of print quality with different black inks on substrates of diverse support body were studied. The result demonstrates: Both dye-base and pigment-base inks present ideal optical density in special-purpose photo paper (swellable or porous type), exhibit distinct writing picture edge, and excellent water fastness and light fastness. While, coated art paper, PP synthetic paper, xuan paper and PET-based coated film, which shows relatively rough surface or weak ink absorbancy, are more suitable to use pigment-based ink.

In order to study the dispersion and performance of tartrazine aluminum lake, 7 kinds of water-based resins are used to form disperse system. These systems are enviroment friendly (low VOC) and use edible yellow lake as colorant. If proper adjustment is added, these disperse systems can be made into ink and paint. The application field should be printing or coating on all the food or drug packages, toys and decorate materials, which will improve social safe level. Colorant, resin, wetting agent, co-solvent, emulsifier, and deionized water are mixed at certain ratio and pre-dispersed for 15min, then dispersed in GJ-2S high speed sanding mill for 3h. Size distribution, PDI, color characteristics (reflectance spectroscopy and color density), glossiness, abrasion performance, and stability are studied. Results demonstrate particle size of disperse system is 338.1~595.3nm (PDI

Water-based polyurethane forms continuous and dense film after fully drying. Ink is lowly absorbed by PU film, affecting drying rate and color reproduction. In order to improve the absorption of ink on PU film, PU/nano alumina compound was prepared by adding nano alumina in PU and stirring at high speed. PU ink absorption coating was got by being coated on the substrate. The influences of different content of nano alumina to transmittance of coating and solid density of color blocks were researched. The influences of soft and hard segment of PU to image resolution and water resistance were also researched. It can be seen that transmittance reduces when content of nano alumina increases. Droplets spread less when using PU of hard segment and image resolution and solid density are also higher. At the same time, water resistance of solid blocks is much better when printed on PU of hard segment.

In order to evaluate the practical application effect of the self-made water-based coated paper inkjet ink and to study the influence factors, their printing performance and the influence of the printed material for printing performance is studied. The drying time of coated paper ink and ordinary water-based inkjet ink are measured and compared. Drying process of ink droplet is recorded by video contact angle tester. It is found that the drying rate of the coated paper ink is higher than the ordinary ink and the diffusion of the ordinary ink is severe. The coated paper ink and ordinary ink are printed, and it is found that the former can get better image detail and color reproduction for the picture of human’s face and inanimate object. The coated paper ink can also obtain a better reproduction of tone levels. Coated paper inkjet ink is printed on different coated papers, and the color densities are measured through red, green and blue color filter. The color strength and hue error are obtained to evaluate the color characteristics on different papers. It is concluded that the coated paper inkjet ink can obtain better color on the Henglian gloss coated paper, Sunbrite gloss coated paper and SPCO matt coated paper.

In order to acquire conductive film with high transparency, conductive polymer PEDT: PSS was mixed with some polar dopants and some surfactants. The coating fluid was acquired and coated on the PET film with different coating rods, and conductive film was gotten after drying at some temperature. The conductive mechanism of polymer after doping was introduced. Furthermore, the influenced factors of conductivity were discussed, including different dopants and surfactants as well as dried temperature. It was concluded that DMSO and EG were the best dopants, that surfactants including fluoride or silicon were suited for high conductivity. The sheet resistance of conductive film can be less than 300 Ω/□ when dried at 130 oC, at the same time the transparency at 550 nm is more than 83%. After measuring with AFM, the surface of film was sharp and the surface roughness is 7nm.