Applied Nanoparticle Laboratory Corporation

Shindengen Electric Manufacturing Company Limited

Nihon Superior Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Teruo Komatsu

Ryo Matsubayashi

Yoshinori Shibata

Tetsuro Nishimura

Hideo Nakamura

Hisaaki Takao

Tadashi Oshima

Masashi Furukawa

Tsukasa Sugie

Shuhei Yamaguchi

Toshitaka Ishizaki

Mitsuhiro Kanou

Ryosuke Gomi

Narutaka Kasuya

Naotoshi Tominaga

A nanoparticle production apparatus and automatic production apparatus that allow continuous mass production of nanoparticles with a uniform particle diameter and allow freely adjusting the generation time are provided. This nanoparticle production apparatus is characterized by being configured from: reaction tubes () which are filled with the same solvent () as that in a ingredient liquid (), which is used in nanoparticle production and comprises an ingredient material () mixed into the solvent (); a heating apparatus () which controls the temperature of the solvent () in the reaction tubes () to the synthesis temperature of the nanoparticles (); inflow ends () of the reaction tubes into which the ingredient liquid () is supplied; rotors () which form spiral flows (e, j) along the inner surface of the outer walls () of the reaction tubes while mixing the ingredient liquid () supplied and the solvent () present in the reaction tubes (); and outflow ends () of the reaction tubes () for forming, in the spiral flows (e, j), nanoparticles () from the ingredient material () and discharging a generation liquid () containing the nanoparticles ().

Nanoparticle production method, production device and automatic production device

An oxygen source-containing composite nanometal paste including at least composite nanometal particles, in which an organic coating layer is formed around a submicron or smaller silver core, and an oxygen source, which feeds oxygen contributing to pyrolysis at a pyrolysis temperature range in which the organic coating layer is pyrolyzed. The oxygen source comprises an oxygen-containing metal compound, and the oxygen content of the oxygen source is within a range of 0.01 mass % to 2 mass % per 100 mass % of the composite nanometal particles.

Oxygen source-containing composite nanometal paste and joining method

The present invention addresses the problem of providing a composite nanometal paste which is relatively low in price and is excellent in terms of bonding characteristics, thermal conductivity, and electrical property. The present invention is a copper-filler-containing composite nanometal paste that contains composite nanometal particles each comprising a metal core and an organic coating layer formed thereon. The metal paste contains a copper filler and contains, as binders, first composite nanometal particles and second composite nanometal particles which differ from the first composite nanometal particles in the thermal decomposition temperature of the organic coating layer, wherein the mass proportion Wof the organic coating layer in the first composite nanometal particles is in the range of 2-13 mass %, the mass proportion Wof the organic coating layer in the second composite nanometal particles is in the range of 5-25 mass %, and these particles satisfy the relationships W

Composite nanometal paste containing copper filler and joining method

A production apparatus of composite silver nanoparticle including: a device for arranging a silver salt microparticle and at least an alcohol solvent selected from alcohols having a carbon number of 1 to 12; a raw material mixer for preparing an alcohol solution by mixing the silver salt microparticle into the alcohol solvent added more excessively than the mol number of the silver salt microparticle to make an excess alcohol solution; a reactor for generating a composite silver nanoparticle by heating the excess alcohol solution at a generation temperature PT generating an aldehyde for a generation time with a heater, in which a silver core is formed by reducing the silver salt microparticle by the alcohol solvent and/or the aldehyde and the composite silver nanoparticle having an organic coating layer originated from the alcohol solvent around the silver core is formed, and a chiller for cooling the alcohol solution.

Production apparatus of composite silver nanoparticle

Provided is a composite nanometal paste which, when a layer of the paste interposed between upper and lower bodies is sintered in an inert gas under no load until the layer turns to a metal layer, attains a shear bond strength between the upper and lower bodies of 10 MPa or higher. The composite nanometal paste contains, as metallic components, composite metallic nanoparticles comprising metal cores with an average particle diameter of X (nm) and an organic coating layer formed around the circumference, metallic nanofiller particles having an average particle diameter of d (nm), and metallic filler particles having an average particle diameter of D (nm), and satisfies the first relation X&#x3c;d&#x3c;D and the second relation X&#x3c;d&#x3c;100 (nm). Furthermore, this is a composite nanometal paste in which said average particle diameter d has a size such that said metal nanofiller particle can be embedded into a three pocket formed when said three said metal filler particles are placed on a plane so as to be mutually in contact, and said average particle diameter X has a size such that the gaps that remain within said three pocket are filled.

Three-metallic-component type composite nanometallic paste, method of bonding, and electronic component

Provided is a composite nanometal paste, whose layer, when sintered in an inert gas under no load, gives a metal layer that is equal or superior in electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity to conventional lead-rich solders. The composite nanometal paste contains, as metal components, composite metal nanoparticles comprising metal cores with an average particle diameter of d (nm) and an organic coating layer formed around the circumference, and metal filler particles having an average particle diameter of D (nm), and satisfies the first relation d&#x3c;D and the second relation d&#x3c;100 (nm). When said organic coating layer volatilizes so that a metal layer is formed by sintering, the size relation between said average particle diameters d, D is designed so that said composite metal nanoparticle can be embedded in a hollow four pocket formed when it is assumed that four said metal filler particles are placed so that they come in contact with a tetrahedron, and it has a property in which said composite metal nanoparticles and said metal filler particles sinter compactly.

Composite nanometal paste of two-metallic-component type, bonding method, and electronic part

A production method of composite silver nanoparticle including the steps of: arranging at least an alcohol solvent selected from alcohols with a carbon number of 1 to 12 composed of methanol, ethanol, propanol, buthanol, pentanol, hexanol, heptanol, octhanol, nonanol, decanol, undecanol and dodecanol; preparing an alcohol solution by mixing a silver salt into the alcohol solvent added more excessively than the mol number of the silver salt so as to become an excess alcohol solution; heating the excess alcohol solution in a reaction chamber at a generation temperature PT generating an aldehyde for a generation time; forming a silver core through reducing of the silver salt by the alcohol solvent and/or the aldehyde; and forming a composite silver nanoparticle having an organic coating layer originated from the alcohol solvent around the silver core.

Production method of composite silver nanoparticle

A cold formation method of composite silver nanoparticles has been established. Thus, provided are composite silver nanoparticles comprising a silver core, which is made up of aggregated silver atoms and has an average particle diameter of from 1 to 20 nm, and an organic coating layer formed thereon which comprises at least one member selected from an alcohol molecule derivative having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, an alcohol molecule residue or an alcohol molecule; a composite silver nanopaste which contains at least the composite silver nanoparticles and a solvent and/or a viscosity grant agent added thereto; a method of producing the same; an apparatus for producing the same; a method of bonding the same; and a method of patterning the same. The method of producing the composite silver nanoparticles comprising mixing silver salt microparticles with an alcohol solvent in excess to prepare an excess alcoholic solution, reacting the solution in a reaction chamber for a predetermined period of time at a predetermined temperature, and thus forming silver cores from the silver salt at a low temperature by the reducing effect of the alcohol and also forming an organic coating layer derived from the above-described alcohol around the silver cores.

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