An Approach to a Silver Conductive Ink for Inkjet Printer Technology.

Silver-based metal-organic decomposition inks composed of silver salts, complexing agents and volatile solvents are now the subject of much research due to the simplicity and variability of their preparation, their high stability and their relatively low sintering temperature. The use of this type of ink in inkjet printing allows for improved cost-effective and environmentally friendly technology for the production of electrical devices, including flexible electronics. An approach to producing a silver salt-based reactive ink for jet printing has been developed.

Building a Cell House from Cellulose: The Case of the Soil Acidobacterium SBC82.

SBC82 is a recently described representative of the phylum from lichen-covered tundra soil. Cells of this bacterium occur within unusual saccular chambers, with the chamber envelope formed by tightly packed fibrils. These extracellular structures were most pronounced in old cultures of strain SBC82 and were organized in cluster-like aggregates.