Patent ID: 7972540

Claim:
A process to fabricate an electronic device comprising: (a) liquid depositing a composition comprising a liquid, silver-containing nanoparticles, a replacement stabilizer on the surface of the silver-containing nanoparticles, and a residual amount of an initial stabilizer on the surface of the silver-containing nanoparticles, resulting in a deposited composition; and (b) heating the deposited composition to form an electrically conductive layer comprising silver; wherein the replacement stabilizer is selected from the group consisting of butyric acid, pentanoic acid, hexanoic acid, heptanoic acid, octanoic acid, nonanoic acid, decanoic acid, undecanoic acid, dodecanoic acid, tridecanoic acid, myristic acid, pentadecanoic acid, palmitic acid, heptadecanoic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, nonadecanoic acid, icosanoic acid, and mixtures thereof; and wherein the residual amount of the initial stabilizer comprises from about 0.001 to about 30 percent by weight of the total weight of the residual amount and the replacement stabilizer.