Full profile interview
11 Jan 2024

Liquid X — Functional Electronics Fabrication
An IDTechEx analyst talked with Liquid X, a Carnegie Mellon University spin-off focusing on the advanced material manufacture of functional metallic inks to replace physical wires. The applications cover multiple industries, including sensors, heating elements, smart textiles and many others
Included are:
Background: Competitors
13 Feb 2023

AI Silk
Apply particle-free inks to fabrics prior to metallization, which has similar benefits to AI Silk's approach with PEDOT:PSS.
Full profile interview: Competitors
9 Aug 2022

OrelTech
Full profile interview: Competitors
9 Nov 2021

Electroninks
Also offer particle-free conductive inks.
Full profile interview: Competitors
3 Nov 2020

OrelTech
Liquid X produce particle-free inks, but have a vertically integrated business model that includes product development services (for applications that require their conductive ink).
Full profile interview: Competitors
22 Oct 2020

ChemCubed
Also produce particle free ink, although their business model is orientated more towards product development (vertically integrated model).
Full profile interview: Partners
12 Oct 2020

Powercast
Have trialed using Powercast's wireless power transfer technology with their particle-free conductive inks.
Full profile interview: Competitors
24 Jul 2020

Liquid Wire
Particle free ink is also well suited to e-textiles as it permeates textile fibres, maintaining their mechanical properties (albeit at a lower conductivity).
Full profile interview
13 Jul 2020

Liquid X
Liquid X manufacture particle-free conductive inks and offer product development that utilizes these inks. Their target markets are primarily automotive, medical, sports/fitness and other consumer markets with a focus on smart textile and EMI shielding products.
Included are:
Full profile interview: Competitors
24 Mar 2020

Electroninks
Direct competitor producing particle free conductive inks
Youtube interview
24 Feb 2020

Water-Clear Conductive Metal Inks
Liquid X Printed Metals® (Liquid X®), headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an advanced material manufacturer of functional metallic inks that takes an application from prototype to production.
13 Sep 2018

Advanced textile based sensors
The collaboration will explore using additive manufacturing to build temperature and pressure sensors directly onto textiles.
Full profile interview: Competitors
18 Sep 2015

Electroninks Writeables
Direct competitor and provides of particle free Ag inks
22 Oct 2014

The $2 billion conductive ink industry gathers in Santa Clara
This is a successful and growing industry. Indeed, IDTechEx projects that the $2billion conductive ink/paste sector will grow $3.2 billion in 2025 at the material level.
Full profile interview
24 Sep 2013

InkTec Co., Ltd
InkTec was formed in 1992. It has 375 staff, of which 80 are involved in R&D. The company had annual sales last years of $74.8million and is a publicly listed company. The company is very active in printed electronics, offering a variety of conductive inks as well as printing services.
Full profile interview: Competitors
29 Nov 2012

Tokusen USA Inc.
They produce a liquid ion particle-free silver ink
Full profile interview: Competitors
28 Nov 2012

Creative Materials - Conductive Inks
They make a new non-particle silver ink
Full profile interview: Competitors
1 Nov 2012

Conductive Compounds
They make a new non-particle silver ink