US Patent Issued to Microwave Chemical on April 29 for "Method for producing silver nanowires, silver nanowires, dispersion, and transparent conductive film" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,805, issued on April 29, was assigned to Microwave Chemical Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for producing silver nanowires, silver nanowires, dispersion, and transparent conductive film" was invented by Tomohisa Yamauchi (Osaka, Japan) and Kei Sakamoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide a method for producing silver nanowires in which a local maximum of optical absorption in the plasmon absorption band can be shifted toward the short wavelength side without making the wire diameter smaller, a method for producing silver nanowires includes a step of heating a mixed liquid of a dispersion of silver nanowir...