Carbon Inks

Creative Materials develops, manufactures and markets specialty chemical products to customers worldwide.
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Creative Materials’ carbon inks and adhesives play an increasing role in applications including printed resistors, polymer thick film circuitry, membrane switches, electrical attachments, heaters, and static elimination. We can configure carbon inks to obtain a range of electrical conductivity values by blending them with silver inks and adjust conductivity to a specific level. Creative Materials can also blend carbon inks with silver inks to reduce cost for some applications.

Carbon inks are lubricious, providing low friction and excellent thermal stability. They are also chemically inert, with low reactivity to solvents and other chemicals. Our carbon inks can be applied by screen-printing, dipping, and syringe dispensing and feature excellent adhesion to Kapton, Mylar, glass and a variety of other substrates. Unlike conventional conductive materials, carbon inks are very resistant to abrasion, scratching, flexing and creasing.

Creative Materials’ waterborne carbon inks are environmentally friendly, while offering the same characteristics of high printability and varying electrical conductivity as our solvent-based carbon inks.

Product Description Application Method Temperature Stability Conductivity (ohms/sq/mil)
112-48A Standard membrane switch resistive ink Screen-print Moderate < 20
127-48LR Washable resistive ink Screen-print Moderate <40
126-48 Resistive conductive ink ideal for printed heaters Screen-print Moderate <50
125-14 High resistance ink, blend-able with 126-48 Screen-print Moderate <15K
123-18 Extremely resistant ink. Blend-able with 112-48 Screen-print Moderate >1M
124-50(LPS) Resistive ink  for ITO or and polycarbonate Screen-print Moderate < 40
124-39(EU) Abrasion resistant, water-based, NMP free Screen-print Moderate <20
128-07 Elastomeric resistive ink Screen-print Moderate <30
126-28 Abrasion resistant ink Screen-print High >8
126-03(SP)C Elastomeric silicone resistive ink, non-flammable Screen-print High <250
114-34 Low temperature curing two component, epoxy ink. Adheres to ITO Screen-print High < 150
120-24 High temp epoxy ink, adheres to ITO and polyimide substrates Screen-print High < 50
127-06 High resistance ink, blend able with 120-24, ideal for strain gauges Screen-print High <5K
121-35(UT) Polyimide resistive ink for very high service temperatures Screen-print High <50
119-28 Very flexible resistive ink Pad-print Moderate <50
124-43 Water based resistive  ink Flexographic Moderate < 20
110-04 Solvent based resistive ink Flexo/Spray Moderate <50

Typical Characteristics of Carbon Inks

EMI/RFI shielding of polyimide flexible circuits
Polymer thick film circuitry
Membrane switches
Electrical attachments for surface-mounted devices
Static elimination
Screen print circuit lines
Anode coatings for tantalum capacitors
Printed potentiometers
Printed resistors
Medical electrodes
Heaters

Kapton
Mylar
Glass
Polycarbonate
ITO sputtered surfaces

Dip coat
Syringe dispense
Screen print
Stamping
Flexographic
Pad print
Sprayable

Thermoplastic
Thermosetting
Epoxy
Silicone
Water-based
Polyimide