Patent ID: 9592493
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: B01J,C23C

Claim:
1. A method for providing an article, comprising: providing a metal catalytic pattern composed of a non-aqueous metal catalytic composition on a substrate, the non-aqueous metal catalytic composition comprising, in admixture: (a) a silver complex comprising reducible silver ions, in an amount of at least 2 weight % and up to and including 25 weight %, which silver complex comprising reducible silver ions is represented by wherein L X is a carboxylate, and n is 1, 2, or 3, (b) a silver ion photoreducing composition in an amount of at least 1 weight % and up to and including 10 weight %, and (c) a photocurable component, non-curable polymer, or a combination of a photocurable component and a non-curable polymer in an amount of at least 10 weight % and up to and including 97 weight %, all amounts being based on the total amount of components (a) through (c) in the non-aqueous metal catalytic composition, to provide a precursor article comprising the metal catalytic pattern composed of the non-aqueous metal catalytic composition, and photoreducing the reducible silver ions to silver particles in the method catalytic pattern by imagewise exposure of the precursor article to radiation having a wavelength of at least 250 nm and up to and including 700 nm.