The Global Conductive Inks Market 2024-2035

1.1        The market for conductive inks
1.1.1     Types of Conductive Inks
1.1.2     Main Applications of Conductive Inks
1.1.3     Advantages of Conductive Inks
1.1.4     Growth and development of conductive inks market
1.1.4.1  Market Evolution
1.1.5     Opportunities in Conductive Inks
1.1.5.1  Flexible and Wearable Electronics
1.1.5.2  Smart Packaging
1.1.5.3  Automotive Industry
1.1.5.4  Medical Devices
1.1.5.5  Energy Harvesting and Storage
1.1.5.6  Smart Textiles
1.1.5.7  Aerospace and Defence
1.2        Digitization of industry
1.3        Printing processes and equipment
1.4        Costs
1.4.1     Reducing costs
1.4.2     Material prices
1.5        Market segmentation
1.5.1     Materials
1.5.2     Printing Technology
1.5.3     Application
1.5.4     End-Use Industries
1.6        Global conductive ink revenues, by ink type

2.1        Conductivity requirements
2.1.1     Challenges
2.1.2     Converting conductivity to sheet resistance
2.2        Growth in printed electronics
2.2.1     Antennas
2.2.2     EMI Shielding
2.3        Conductive Ink Suppliers
2.3.1     Market positioning
2.3.2     Suppliers by Conductive Material
2.3.2.1  Silver Inks
2.3.2.2  Copper Inks
2.3.2.3  Carbon/Graphene Inks
2.3.2.4  Conductive Polymers
2.3.3     Suppliers by Ink Composition
2.3.3.1  Nanoparticle Inks
2.3.3.2  Particle-free Inks
2.3.3.3  Hybrid Inks

3.1        Overview
3.2        Flake-based silver inks
3.2.1     Overview
3.2.1.1  Increased conductivity and improved durability
3.2.1.2  High resolution functional screen printing
3.2.1.3  Silver electromigration
3.2.2     Flake-based silver ink value chain
3.2.3     Comparison of flake-based silver inks
3.2.4     Silver flake producers
3.2.5     SWOT analysis
3.3        Nanoparticle-based silver inks
3.3.1     Overview
3.3.2     Costs
3.3.3     Increasing conductivity
3.3.4     Laser-Generated Inks
3.3.4.1  Key advantages
3.3.5     Prices
3.3.6     Ag nanoparticle inks curing
3.3.6.1  Curing Temperature
3.3.6.2  Curing Time
3.3.7     Silver nanoparticle production
3.3.7.1  Methods
3.3.7.2  Benchmarking
3.3.7.3  Nanoparticle ink manufacturers
3.3.8     Applications
3.3.9     Comparison of nanoparticle-based silver ink types
3.3.10   SWOT analysis
3.4        Particle-free inks
3.4.1     Overview
3.4.1.1  Operating principle
3.4.1.2  Conductivity
3.4.1.3  Benefits of particle-free inks
3.4.1.4  Permeability
3.4.1.5  Thermoformable particle-free inks
3.4.1.6  Particle-free conductive inks based on sintering requirements
3.4.1.7  Particle-free inks for different metals
3.4.1.8  Properties of particle-free silver inks
3.4.2     Applications
3.4.2.1  Key application areas
3.4.2.2  EMI shielding
3.4.3     Particle free ink producers
3.4.4     SWOT analysis
3.5        Copper inks
3.5.1     Overview
3.5.1.1  Challenges
3.5.1.1.1    Copper oxidation
3.5.2     Sintering
3.5.3     Applications
3.5.3.1  Flexible and hybrid electronics (FHE)
3.5.3.2  RFID
3.5.4     Copper ink suppliers
3.5.5     SWOT analysis
3.6        Carbon-based inks (including graphene & CNTs)
3.6.1     Overview
3.6.2     Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Inks
3.6.2.1  Transparent conductive CNT inks
3.6.3     Graphene Inks
3.6.3.1.1    Properties
3.6.4     Graphene/CNT ink producers
3.6.5     Comparative analysis
3.6.6     Carbon Black Inks
3.6.6.1  Applications
3.6.7     SWOT analysis
3.7        Stretchable/Thermoformable Inks
3.7.1     Overview
3.7.1.1  Stretchable v Thermoformable conductive inks
3.7.1.2  Size and morphology of  conductive filler particles
3.7.2     Applications and innovations
3.7.3     Metal gels
3.7.3.1  Description
3.7.3.2  Advantages
3.7.4     Stretchable/thermoformable ink manufacturers
3.7.5     SWOT analysis
3.8        Silver Nanowires
3.8.1     Overview
3.8.1.1  Benefits of silver nanowire TCFs
3.8.1.2  Performance in TCFs
3.8.1.3  Durability and flexibility
3.8.2     Improving electrical and mechanical properties
3.8.3     Coating and encapsulation
3.8.4     Limitations and challenges
3.8.5     Value chain
3.8.6     Manufacturing processes
3.8.7     Applications
3.8.7.1  Capacitive touch sensors
3.8.7.2  Touchscreens
3.8.7.3  Transparent heaters
3.8.8     Silver nanowire producers
3.8.9     SWOT Analysis
3.9        Conductive polymers
3.9.1     Overview
3.9.1.1  Commercial types
3.9.1.1.1   n-type conductive polymers
3.9.1.1.2   Biobased conductive polymer inks
3.9.1.2   Advantages
3.9.2      Applications
3.9.2.1   Flexible devices
3.9.2.2   Capacitive touch sensors
3.9.3      SWOT analysis

4.1         Overview of key applications for conductive inks
4.2         Benchmarking conductive ink requirements
4.2.1      Technological and commercial readiness of key conductive ink applications
4.3         Photovoltaics
4.3.1      Technology overview
4.3.1.1   Charge extraction
4.3.1.2   Conductive pastes and inks in photovoltaic cells
4.3.2      Costs
4.3.3      Transitioning from PERC to TOPCon and SHJ
4.3.4      Alternative solar cell connection technology
4.3.5      Conductive ink requirements
4.3.6      SWOT analysis
4.3.7      Global market revenues, by ink type
4.4         Printed Heaters
4.4.1      Technology overview
4.4.2      Applications
4.4.2.1   Automotive
4.4.2.2   Building-integrated solutions
4.4.2.3   Wearable heaters
4.4.3      Comparison for e-textile heating technologies
4.4.3.1   Heated clothing
4.4.4      Conductive ink requirements for printed heaters
4.4.5      SWOT analysis
4.4.6      Global market revenues, by ink type
4.5         Flexible hybrid electronics (FHE)
4.5.1      Technology overview
4.5.2      Advantages
4.5.3      FHE value chain
4.5.4      Applications
4.5.4.1   Wearable skin patches
4.5.4.2   Condition monitoring
4.5.4.3   Multi-sensor wireless asset tracking systems
4.5.5      Conductive ink requirements
4.5.6      SWOT analysis
4.5.7      Global market revenues, by ink type
4.6         In-mold electronics (IME)
4.6.1      Technology overview
4.6.1.1   Advantages
4.6.1.2   IME manufacturing
4.6.1.3   Materials
4.6.2      IME value chain
4.6.3      Silver flake-based ink
4.6.4      Conductive ink requirements
4.6.5      SWOT analysis
4.6.6      Global market revenues, by ink type
4.7         3D Electronics
4.7.1      Technology overview
4.7.2      Partially versus fully additive electronics
4.7.2.1   Partially Additive Electronics
4.7.2.2   Fully Additive Electronics
4.7.3      Nanoscale to macroscale
4.7.4      Fully 3D Printed Electronics
4.7.4.1   Fully 3D printed circuits and electronic components
4.7.4.2   Challenges
4.7.5      Conductive Ink Requirements
4.7.6      SWOT analysis
4.7.7      Global market revenues, by ink type
4.8         E-textiles
4.8.1      Technology overview
4.8.1.1   Integration of electronics into
4.8.1.2   Challenges for E-Textiles
4.8.2      Applications
4.8.2.1   Biometric Monitoring
4.8.2.2   Textile sensors
4.8.3      Conductive Ink Requirements
4.8.4      SWOT analysis
4.8.5      Global market revenues, by ink type
4.9         Circuit prototyping
4.9.1      Technology overview
4.9.1.1   PCB prototyping
4.9.1.2   Circuit prototyping and 3D electronics
4.9.2      Conductive ink requirements
4.9.3      SWOT analysis
4.9.4      Global market revenues, by ink type
4.10       Printed and flexible sensors
4.10.1    Key markets for printed/flexible sensors
4.10.2    Capacitive sensing
4.10.2.1   Working principle
4.10.2.2   Printed capacitive sensor technologies
4.10.2.3   3D Capacitive Sensing
4.10.2.4   Current mode sensor readout
4.10.2.5   Conductive ink requirements
4.10.2.6   SWOT analysis
4.10.2.7   Global market revenues, by ink type
4.10.3    Pressure sensors
4.10.3.1    Force sensitive inks
4.10.3.2    Manufacturing methods
4.10.3.2.1 Roll-to-roll manufacturing technology
4.10.3.3    Conductive ink requirements
4.10.3.4    SWOT analysis
4.10.3.5    Global market revenues, by ink type
4.10.4    Biosensors
4.10.4.1    Electrochemical biosensors
4.10.4.1.1 Fabrication of electrochemical biosensors
4.10.4.1.1.1  Screen Printing
4.10.4.1.1.2  Sputtering
4.10.4.1.2     Challenges
4.10.4.2        Printed pH sensors
4.10.4.3        Conductive ink requirements
4.10.4.4        SWOT analysis
4.10.4.5        Global market revenues, by ink type
4.10.5     Strain sensors
4.10.5.1        Overview
4.10.5.2        Capacitive strain sensors
4.10.5.3        Resistive strain sensors
4.10.5.4        AR/VR
4.10.5.5        Conductive ink requirements
4.10.5.6        SWOT analysis
4.10.5.7        Global market revenues, by ink type
4.11        Wearable electrodes
4.11.1     Technology overview
4.11.1.1     Wet vs dry electrodes
4.11.2     Requirements
4.11.3     Applications
4.11.3.1      Skin patches
4.11.3.2      E-textiles
4.11.4    Conductive ink requirements
4.11.5    SWOT analysis
4.11.6    Global market revenues, by ink type
4.12       EMI Shielding
4.12.1    Technology overview
4.12.2    Process flow
4.12.3    Sprayed EMI shielding
4.12.4    Conformal shielding technologies
4.12.5    Hybrid inks
4.12.6    Particle-free Ag ink
4.12.7    Heterogeneous integration
4.12.8    Suppliers
4.12.9    Conductive ink requirements
4.12.10     SWOT analysis
4.12.11     Global market revenues, by ink type
4.13      Printed Antennas
4.13.1   Technology overview
4.13.1.1    Extruded conductive paste
4.13.2   Applications
4.13.2.1     Automotive transparent antennas
4.13.2.2     Building integrated transparent antennas
4.13.2.3     Consumer electronic devices
4.13.2.4     Smart packaging
4.13.3   Conductive ink requirements
4.13.4   SWOT analysis
4.13.5   Global market revenues, by ink type
4.14      RFID & Smart Packaging
4.14.1   Technology overview
4.14.2   Applications
4.14.2.1     Printed RFID antennas
4.14.2.2     Smart packaging
4.14.2.3     Sensor-less sensing
4.14.3   Conductive ink requirements
4.14.4   SWOT analysis
4.14.5   Global market revenues, by ink type
4.15      Printed batteries
4.15.1   Technology overview
4.15.2   Applications
4.15.3   SWOT analysis
4.15.4   Global market revenues, by ink type

Table 1. Conductivity of some functional materials used in conductive inks.
Table 2. Advantages of conductive ink, by type.
Table 3. Key Growth Markets for Conductive Inks.
Table 4. Material Type.
Table 5. Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of different conductive ink types.
Table 6. Printing technologies
Table 7. Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of different printing technologies.
Table 8. Applications for conductive inks,
Table 9. Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of conductive ink applications.
Table 10. End-Use Industries for conductive inks.
Table 11. Global conductive ink revenues, by ink type, 2022-2035 (Millions US$).
Table 12. Conductivity Requirements by Application.
Table 13. Suppliers by Conductive Material.
Table 14. Suppliers by Ink Composition.
Table 15. Benchmarking conductive ink properties.
Table 16. Properties of various flake-based silver inks.
Table 17. Silver Flake Producers and Products.
Table 18. Prices of various silver nanoparticle products and ink formulations.
Table 19. Comparative analysis of Silver Nanoparticle Production Methods.
Table 20. Benchmarking Parameters for Silver Nanoparticle Production Methods.
Table 21. Nanoparticle ink manufacturers.
Table 22. Application Opportunities for Nanoparticle Inks.
Table 23. Comparing properties of nanoparticle-based silver inks.
Table 24. Key benefits of particle-free inks.
Table 25. Particle-free conductive inks based on their sintering requirements.
Table 26. Particle-free conductive inks for different metals.
Table 27. Properties of different particle-free silver ink systems.
Table 28. Key application areas and the potential benefits of using particle-free inks.
Table 29. Particle-Free Ink Manufacturers and Products.
Table 30. Challenges in developing copper inks.
Table 31. Particle-free conductive inks based on their sintering requirements.
Table 32. Copper ink suppliers.
Table 33. Comparison table of various carbon conductive inks.
Table 34. Properties for various transparent conductive materials.
Table 35. Graphene-based conductive inks applications.
Table 36. Graphene/CNT ink producers.
Table 37. Properties of graphene and CNT inks.
Table 38. Commercially available carbon black grades.
Table 39. Stretchable v Thermoformable conductive inks.
Table 40. TRL for stretchable and thermoformable electronics.
Table 41. Properties of selected stretchable and thermoformable conductive inks.
Table 42. Stretchable/Thermoformable Ink Manufacturers.
Table 43. Key benefits of silver nanowires.
Table 44. Applications of silver nanowires.
Table 45. TRL of silver nanowire technology.
Table 46. Silver nanowire producers.
Table 47.Biobased conductive polymer inks.
Table 48. Applications of conductive polymers in flexible electronics.
Table 49. Key applications of conductive inks.
Table 50. Benchmarking conductive ink requirements by application.
Table 51. Technological and commercial readiness levels of various conductive ink applications.
Table 52. Conductive ink requirements for photovoltaics.
Table 53. Global Market for Conductive Inks for Photovoltaics (Conventional/Rigid), 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Table 54. Global Market for Conductive Inks for Photovoltaics (Flexible), 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Table 55. Building-integrated solutions for printed heaters.
Table 56. Key characteristics of e-textile heating technologies.
Table 57. Conductive ink requirements for printed heaters.
Table 58.  Global Market for Conductive Inks in printed heaters, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Table 59. Conductive ink requirements in FHE.
Table 60. Global market for Conductive Inks in Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE), by ink type, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Table 61. Key requirements for conductive inks in IME applications.
Table 62.  Global Market for Conductive Inks in In-Mold Electronics (IME), 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Table 63. Advantages of fully additively manufactured 3D electronics:
Table 64. Fully 3D printed circuits and electronic components.
Table 65. Requirements for conductive inks in 3D electronics:
Table 66.  Global Market for Conductive Inks in 3-D Electronics, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Table 67. Requirements for conductive inks in e-textiles applications.
Table 68. Global Market for Conductive Inks in E-Textiles, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Table 69. Global Market for Conductive Inks for Circuit Prototyping, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Table 70. Key markets for printed/flexible sensors.
Table 71. Printed capacitive sensor technologies.
Table 72. Technology Readiness level of printed capacitive touch sensors materials and technologies.
Table 73.  Global Market for Conductive Inks in capacitive sensing, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Table 74. Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) for printed piezoresistive pressure sensors and printed piezoelectric sensors.
Table 75. Manufacturing of printed piezoresistive sensors.
Table 76. Conductive ink requirements for printed piezoresistive pressure sensors and printed piezoelectric sensors.
Table 77. Global Market for Conductive Inks in pressure sensors, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Table 78.  Global Market for Conductive Inks in biosensors, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Table 79.  Global Market for Conductive Inks in printed strain sensors, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Table 80. Comparison of Wet and Dry Electrodes in Wearable Electrodes.
Table 81. Requirements of wearable electrodes.
Table 82. Markets, applications and product types for wearable electrodes.
Table 83. Technology readiness level of printed wearable electrodes.
Table 84. Conductive ink requirements for printed wearable electrodes.
Table 85.  Global Market for Conductive Inks in wearable electrodes, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Table 86. Ink-based conformal EMI shielding companies.
Table 87. Conductive ink requirements for EMI shielding.
Table 88.  Global Market for Conductive Inks in EMI shielding, 2022-2035 (Milions).
Table 89. Addressable Markets for Transparent Antennas.
Table 90.  Global Market for Conductive Inks in printed antennas, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Table 91. Conductive ink requirements for RFID and smart packaging.
Table 92.  Global Market for Conductive Inks in RFID and smart packaging, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Table 93. Global Market for Conductive Inks in printed batteries, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).

Figure 1. Printed electronics for smart automotive interiors.
Figure 2. E-textile with printed antenna.
Figure 3. Global conductive ink revenues, by ink type, 2022-2035 (Millions US$).
Figure 4. Flexible RFID antenna printed using conductive ink.
Figure 5. Flake-Based Silver Ink Value Chain.
Figure 6. SWOT analysis for Flake-based silver inks.
Figure 7. SWOT analysis for Nanoparticle inks.
Figure 8. SWOT analysis for Particle-free conductive inks
Figure 9. RFID Tag with Nano Copper Antenna on Paper.
Figure 10. SWOT analysis for Copper-based inks
Figure 11. SWOT analysis for Carbon black conductive inks.
Figure 12. SWOT analysis for Nanostructured carbon conductive inks.
Figure 13. Stretchable conductive ink containing liquid-metal particles prototype.
Figure 14. SWOT analysis for Stretchable/thermoformable inks.
Figure 15. Silver nanowires value chain.
Figure 16. SWOT analysis for Silver nanowires.
Figure 17. SWOT analysis: conductive polymer inks.
Figure 18. SWOT analysis for Conductive ink in Photovoltaics.
Figure 19. Global Market for Conductive Inks for Photovoltaics (Conventional/Rigid), 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Figure 20. Global Market for Conductive Inks for Photovoltaics (Flexible), 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Figure 21. Haydale 'Hot Seat'.
Figure 22. SWOT analysis for Conductive inks in Printed heaters.
Figure 23. Global Market for Conductive Inks in printed heaters, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Figure 24. SWOT analysis: Conductive inks in Flexible hybrid electronics (FHE).
Figure 25. Global Market for Conductive Inks in Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE), by ink type, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Figure 26. In-Mold Electronics (IME) examples.
Figure 27. IME value chain.
Figure 28. SWOT analysis for Conductive inks in In-mold electronics (IME).
Figure 29. Conductive Inks for In-Mold Electronics (IME) Volumes 2022-2035 (Tons).
Figure 30. SWOT analysis for Conductive inks in 3D electronics.
Figure 31. Global Market for Conductive Inks in 3-D Electronics, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Figure 32. SWOT analysis for Conductive inks in e-textiles.
Figure 33. Global Market for Conductive Inks in E-Textiles, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Figure 34. SWOT analysis for conductive inks in circuit prototyping.
Figure 35. Global Market for Conductive Inks for Circuit Prototyping, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Figure 36. SWOT analysis: Conductive inks in capacitive sensors.
Figure 37. Global Market for Conductive Inks in capacitive sensing, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Figure 38. SWOT analysis for Piezoresistive sensors.
Figure 39. SWOT analysis for Piezoelectric sensors.
Figure 40. Global Market for Conductive Inks in pressure sensors, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Figure 41. SWOT analysis for Conductive inks in Printed biosensors.
Figure 42. Global Market for Conductive Inks in biosensors, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Figure 43. Conductive Inks in printed strain sensors.
Figure 44. Global Market for Conductive Inks in printed strain sensors, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Figure 45. SWOT analysis for Printed wearable electrodes
Figure 46. Global Market for Conductive Inks in wearable electrodes, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Figure 47. SWOT analysis for Conductive inks in EMI shielding.
Figure 48. Global Market for Conductive Inks in EMI shielding, 2022-2035 (Millions).
Figure 49. SWOT analysis for Printed antennas.
Figure 50. Global Market for Conductive Inks in printed antennas, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Figure 51. Chip-less RFID tags.
Figure 52. SWOT analysis for conductive inks in RFID and smart packaging.
Figure 53. Global Market for Conductive Inks in RFID and smart packaging, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Figure 54. SWOT analysis for conductive inks in printed batteries.
Figure 55. Global Market for Conductive Inks in printed batteries, 2022-2035 (Millions USD).
Figure 56. Bando conductive ink product.
Figure 57. DryCure J Ag Nanoink for Inkjet Printing.
Figure 58. Copprium copper ink product.
Figure 59. Fuji carbon nanotube products.
Figure 60. A RF antenna printed on the DragonFly IV.
Figure 61. (A) Thick-Film Conductive Ink. (B) Flexible substrate with patterns printed on its surface using the thick-film conductive ink. (C) Variety of metal complex inks that are used to synthesize the thick-film conductive ink. (D) Copper particles.
Figure 62. PulpaTronics' paper RFID tag.
Figure 63. Saral StretchSilver 500 printed on a textile substrate.
Figure 64. Touchcode technology.