Copprium and University at Buffalo Collaborate to Create Conductive Copper Inks Needed for Industry 4.0 Applications
Buffalo, NY, 11/20/2024— Copprium, Inc., and their partner, University at Buffalo Scientist Luis R. De Jesus Baez, have been awarded $100,000 from this year’s SUNY Research Foundation Technology Acceleration Fund. The collaboration between Copprium, a startup from the University at Buffalo’s Business and Entrepreneur Partnerships program, and the DJB Lab seeks to develop molecular-scale copper conductive inks that are a key material in manufacturing Internet of Things (IOT) devices, advanced sensors, and semiconductors.
Consumer, industrial, medical, and aerospace electronics are shrinking smaller than traditional rigid, macro-scale, processes can manufacture. This makes it difficult to use traditional electrical components and wiring. Conductive inks are created with electrically conductive materials specifically formulated for printing very small electrical circuits on virtually any surface, allowing electrical current to flow through them.
Today’s printed electronics processes rely on costly macro-scale silver conductive ink. Currently, Copprium’s nano-scale copper inks are plug & play replacements to swap out high-cost silver with copper in traditional electronic applications, particularly when specific printing application processes are used with nano-sized particles.
“Conductive inks must get smaller than even our current nanoscale products to allow new electronics innovations to be created” Edward Tierney, CEO at Copprium. “This grant will move our molecular-scale technology towards commercialization. We are appreciative of being chosen to receive this funding along with the opportunity to collaborate with Dr. De Jesus Baez.”
“This grant delves further into reducing, or better yet eliminating, the size of particles in Copprium’s inks” said Dr. Luis De Jesus Baez, Research Professor at the University at Buffalo, and Principal Investigator with Copprium. “The applications that become possible with molecular conductive inks are certain to accelerate innovations in printed electronics, especially as applications become ever smaller.”
About Copprium
Copprium, Inc., a spin out from the University at Buffalo’s Business and Entrepreneur Partnerships office, is innovating new methods of applying electronic circuitry that are solderable, anti-corrosive, antioxidative and can be sintered at as low as room temperature. Using Copprium conductive inks, manufacturers can print electronic pathways on a wide range of materials and flexible surfaces that traditional subtractive processes can’t.
About the SUNY Research Foundation
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