Patent ID: 7438835

Claim:
A transparent conductive film for formation on a substrate comprising: a single-layer film obtained by coating on a substrate a transparent conductive film-forming coating liquid which contains chainlike agglomerates of noble metal-coated silver microparticles and a binder, wherein the noble metal used in said noble metal-coated silver microparticles is at least one or more selected from gold, platinum, palladium, rhodium and ruthenium, said chainlike agglomerates having an average primary chain length set within the range of 250 to 500 nm, an average thickness set within the range of 1 to 30 nm and an average primary chain length-average thickness ratio set within the range of 3 to 100, and said binder being set within the range of 40 to 200 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of said noble metal-coated silver microparticles, wherein said single-layer film has a surface resistance of 50 to 2000 Ω/□ and a visible ray transmittance of 40 to 95% as determined alone and independently of said substrate.