Materials for Functional Inkjet Printing: A Market Forecast, 2009-2016

As a mature additive process, printing has long been attractive in manufacturing environments that extend well beyond traditional graphics. Conductive inks, for example, revolutionized the manufacturing of consumer electronics in the 1970s enabling low-cost circuit boards and membrane switches. The arrival of inkjet printing, however, has added new dimensions to this kind of functional printing. Inkjet offers finer features and the ability to customize products in a way never before possible. And all at relatively low costs. In the electronics industry, inkjet is seen as an effective way to prototype devices before they go to the fab and inkjet is already providing better economics in the display industry. Inkjet is also used to create automotive components and appears to have a future in areas as diverse as MEMS, biotechnology, photovoltaics and smart textiles.

The surge in interest in functional printing is creating interesting new opportunities for ink makers. At the same time these opportunities are spread over a large number of applications, so some are potential major revenue generators, while others are no more than niches. This raises the question of how ink makers and other materials suppliers can best capitalize on the growth of functional printing in terms of the materials used in inks and the performance characteristics of those inks. This report addresses this question directly. It identifies and also quantifies these opportunities in functional inkjet over the next eight years.

We believe that this new study will be of interest not just to materials companies, but also to manufacturers of industrial inkjet equipment firms, and to the developers of printed devices themselves. In addition to an analysis of current trends and performance requirements, the report also provides an eight-year forecast of functional inks for jetting machinery.
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Executive Summary

E.1 Emerging Opportunities in Functional Inkjet Ink
E.1.1 Opportunities for Ink Makers
E.1.2 Opportunities for Equipment Makers
E.1.3 Opportunities for Product Developers
E.2 Key Players in the Functional Jetting Ink Business
E.2.1 Firms to Watch
E.2.2 R&D Facilities and Universities
E.3 The Investment Picture for Functional Inks
E.4 Summary of Eight-Year Market Forecasts

Chapter One: Introduction

1.1 Background to this Report
1.1.1 Evolution of Fluids for New Industrial Applications
1.2 Objective and Scope of this Report
1.3 Methodology
1.4 Plan of this Report

Chapter Two: Ink Chemistry and Printhead Technology

2.1 Aqueous Ink Systems
2.1.1 Pigment Dispersions
2.1.2 Drying Rates and Substrate Interaction
2.2 Ink Chemistry and Materials: Non-Aqueous Systems
2.2.1 Solvent Types and Benefits
2.2.2 Phase Change Inks
2.2.3 Pigment Dispersions
2.2.4 Shelf-Life
2.2.5 UV/EB Systems
2.3 Ink Chemistry and Materials: Metallic Inks
2.3.1 Silver Ink
2.3.2 Experimental Nanosilver Particle Synthesis
2.3.3 Nanogold Ink
2.3.4 Copper and Copper-Silver Inks
2.3.5 Processing Trends
2.3.6 Impact of Nanomaterials on Curing Times and Temperature
2.3.7 Impact of Nanomaterials on Conductivity
2.3.8 Challenges
2.4 Organic Inks
2.4.1 Small Polymers
2.4.2 Polymers
2.4.3 Oligomers
2.4.4 Hybrid Materials
2.4.5 Organic Materials for Light Emission
2.4.6 Polymer OLEDs
2.5 Silicon Inks
2.5.1 Silicon Nanocrystals (Quantum Dots): Emerging Technology and Manufacturing Processes
2.5.2 Jetting Silicon
2.5.3 Seiko Epson
2.5.4 Other "Quantum Dot" Ink Formulations
2.5.5 MEMS
2.6 Carbon Nanotube Technology (CNT) Inks
2.7 Biomaterials
2.7.1 Biofabrication and Engineering of Tissue
2.7.2 Drug Dispensing
2.7.3 Sensors Using Biomaterials
2.7.4 Potential Damage to Biological Materials
2.8 Key Printhead Manufacturers
2.8.1 IP/Technology-Base Comparison
2.8.2 Printhead Limitations
2.9 Key Points

Chapter Three: Jetted Ink Requirements by Application

3.1 Three-dimensional Modeling and Rapid Prototyping
3.1.1 Major Manufacturers
3.1.2 Inkjet Fluid and Materials
3.1.3 Combinatorial and High Throughput Methods for Materials Discovery
3.1.4 Three-dimensional Printing
3.2 Automotive Components
3.2.1 Automotive Textiles
3.3 PCB Masking and Manufacture
3.3.1 Inkjet Printing of Multiple Layers
3.4 Microelectronics
3.4.1 MEMS
3.4.2 Electrical Interconnects
3.4.3 Embedded Passives
3.4.4 Chip-Scale (3-D) Packaging
3.5 Organic Electronics
3.6 Optoelectronics
3.6.1 Micro-lenses
3.6.2 Waveguides
3.6.3 Sensors
3.7 Biomedical
3.7.1 DNA and Protein Deposition
3.7.2 Biopolymers, Cells, Drug Dispensing
3.8 RFID
3.8.1 Printed RFID
3.8.2 Antennas
3.8.3 Printing RFID Chips
3.9 Security Printing
3.9.1 Banknotes/Currency
3.9.2 Inks and Marking ID Technologies
3.9.3 Thermochromatic/Photochromic Inks
3.9.4 Smartcards
3.10 Intelligent Electronics
3.10.1 Smart Packaging
3.10.2 Smart Textiles
3.11 Display and Signage Applications
3.11.1 Frontplanes and Backplanes
3.11.2 Color Filters
3.12 Photovoltaics
3.12.1 Active Materials
3.12.2 Contacts for Photovoltaics
3.13 Adhesive Dispensing
3.14 Ceramic and Glass Dispensing
3.15 Bio-fluid, Enzyme, and Medical Dispensing
3.15.1 Bio Ink
3.16 Key Points

Chapter Four: Eight-Year Market Forecasts

4.1 Scope and Philosophy of Forecasts
4.2 Forecasting Methodology
4.3 Eight-Year Forecast Assumptions
4.4 Functional Inkjet Ink Materials
4.5 Functional Inkjet Ink Demand by Worldwide Region
4.6 Worldwide Functional Inkjet Ink Pricing
4.7 Worldwide Functional Inkjet Ink Revenue by Ink Type
4.8 Worldwide Functional Inkjet Ink Revenue by Region
4.9 Applications for Functional Inkjet Ink
4.9.1 Photovoltaics
4.9.2 RFID, Smart Packaging, Labels, and Brand Protection
4.9.3 Display and Signage
4.9.4 Biofluid and Medical Dispensing
4.9.5 Automotive Components
4.9.6 Three-dimensional Modeling and Rapid Prototyping
4.9.7 Microelectronics/MEMS
4.9.8 Security Printing
4.9.9 PCB Manufacturing and Masking
4.9.10 Smart Textiles
4.9.11 Adhesive Dispensing
4.9.12 Ceramics and Glass Dispensing
4.10 Functional Inkjet Technologies
Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in this report
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Exhibit E-1 Inkjet Materials Used in 3-D and Rapid Prototype Manufacturing
Exhibit E-2 Worldwide Functional Ink Revenue by Ink Type 2009-2016 ($ Millions)
Exhibit 2-1 Conductivity of Metal
Exhibit 2-2 NanoMas Ink Specifications
Exhibit 2-3 Characteristics of OE Materials
Exhibit 2-4 Light Emitting Materials for OLEDs
Exhibit 3-1 Inkjet Materials Used in 3-D and Rapid Prototype Manufacturing
Exhibit 3-2 Major Firms Involved in Printed RFID
Exhibit 4-1 Worldwide Functional Ink Demand by Ink Type, (Million Liters)
Exhibit 4-2 Worldwide Functional Ink Demand by Region, (Million Liters)
Exhibit 4-3 Worldwide Industrial Inkjet Fluid Average Pricing ($)/Liter
Exhibit 4-4 Worldwide Functional Ink Revenue by Ink Type ($ Millions)
Exhibit 4-5 Worldwide Ink Revenue by Region ($ Millions)
Exhibit 4-6 Key Industrial Ink Jet Fluid Applications, Worldwide (Liters)
Exhibit 4-7 Worldwide Revenue by Application ($ Million)
Exhibit 4-8 Worldwide Ink Volume by Technology, Liters
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