Cuprous electrochemical reduction

Coppjer (Cu) nanoparticies are of great interest in various fields, spjecifically that of printable electronics. Cu interconnects less than 20 xm wide can be made with a high resolution screen printer or a sup>er inkjet printer using an ink which contains dense Cu nanoparticies. Cu nanoparticies have been synthesized by various reduction processes from cuprous (Cu(I)) or cupric (Cu(II)) compounds, including direct electrochemical reduction (Han et al., 2006 L. Huang et al., 2006 Yu et al., 2007), chemical reduction (Lisiecki Pdeni, 1993 Lisiecki et al., 19% H. H. Huang et al., 1997 Qi et al., 1997 Ohde et al., 2001), thermal reduction (Dhas et al.. 

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