Patent 7935170 was granted and assigned to Samsung on May, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing copper-based nanoparticles, in particular, to a method for manufacturing copper-based nanoparticles, wherein the method includes producing CuO nanoparticles by mixing CuO micropowder and alkylamine in a nonpolar solvent and heating the mixture at 60-300° C.; and producing copper-based nanoparticles by mixing a capping molecule and a reducing agent with the CuO nanoparticles and heating the mixture at 60-120° C.