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Indium Reference Rate — 10-Day Trend
All prices in ₹ per gram · daily rate, updated once per day
Searching for a Way Off Indium's Thin Supply Base
Indium tin oxide has been the default transparent conductive coating for touchscreens and displays for decades, but the "indium" half of that name is exactly what's motivating a genuine research effort to find something else. Indium is a critical raw material with limited global reserves — estimated at just 50,000-80,000 metric tonnes worldwide — and China alone supplies more than half of global output. Today's indium reference rate is ₹69.21 per gram on September 17, 2026.
- Silver nanowires + graphene: a hybrid coating researched at the University of Sussex and elsewhere
- Carbon nanotubes: another material explored as an ITO alternative
- Conductive polymers: a third avenue under research
Indium Reference Rate by Weight
Today's Indium rate is Sixty Nine Rupees per gram. At this rate, 10 grams of Indium costs Six Hundred and Ninety Two Rupees.
| Unit | Weight | Price (INR) | Price in Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gram | 1.0000 g | ₹69.21 | Sixty Nine Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹553.67 | Five Hundred and Fifty Four Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹692.09 | Six Hundred and Ninety Two Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹6,920.91 | Six Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty One Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹69,209.09 | Sixty Nine Thousand Two Hundred and Nine Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹1,962.04 | One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty Two Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹2,152.64 | Two Thousand One Hundred and Fifty Three Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹69,209,089.00 | Six Crore Ninety Two Lakh Nine Thousand Eighty Nine Rupees |
How Graphene Makes Silver Nanowires Work Better
Silver nanowires alone can conduct electricity well enough for a touchscreen coating, but researchers found that linking them together with graphene boosts their conductivity meaningfully — which means less silver is needed to achieve the same performance than a nanowire-only design would require. The resulting hybrid is also described as more flexible and robust than ITO, a real advantage for foldable or flexible display designs where ITO's inherent brittleness becomes a genuine limitation.
Why none of these has actually replaced ITO yet
Manufacturability, cost, and performance trade-offs have kept every alternative — silver nanowire hybrids, carbon nanotubes, conductive polymers — from displacing ITO at meaningful commercial scale so far. Being technically promising in a lab isn't the same as being ready for mass-market touchscreen production lines that have spent decades optimizing around ITO specifically.
| Material | Key Advantage | Commercial Status |
|---|---|---|
| Silver nanowire + graphene | Flexible, robust, less silver needed than nanowire alone | Research stage |
| Carbon nanotubes | Flexible, conductive | Research stage |
| Conductive polymers | Low-cost potential | Research stage |
Indium Reference Rate — Last 10 Days
The most recent Indium price on record (2026-09-17) is Sixty Nine Rupees per gram. This is up by Less than One Rupees from the previous day's rate of ₹69.07.
| Date | Price (INR/g) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | ₹69.21 | +0.14 |
| 2026-09-16 | ₹69.07 | +0.03 |
| 2026-09-15 | ₹69.04 | +0.09 |
| 2026-09-14 | ₹68.95 | +0.11 |
| 2026-09-13 | ₹68.84 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-12 | ₹68.84 | +0.04 |
| 2026-09-11 | ₹68.80 | -0.04 |
| 2026-09-10 | ₹68.84 | +0.35 |
| 2026-09-09 | ₹68.50 | -0.26 |
| 2026-09-08 | ₹68.76 | — |
What This Means for Indium's Long-Term Demand Picture
None of this changes indium's price today — it's a slow-moving, multi-year research effort rather than an imminent market shift. But it's a genuine, real signal that the electronics industry is taking indium's supply constraints seriously enough to fund alternatives, which is worth understanding as part of indium's longer-term demand outlook, even if ITO remains dominant for now.
The comparison table and 10-day history above track indium's own price trend. For a longer view, the site's own indium price history page holds real recorded data by year and month.
ITO Alternatives — Common Questions
Indium is classified as a critical raw material with limited global reserves, estimated at just 50,000-80,000 metric tonnes, and production is concentrated in China, which supplies more than half of global output. That scarcity and concentration together create real long-term supply-security concerns for an industry that depends heavily on it.
Researchers, including a team at the University of Sussex, have developed a hybrid material combining silver nanowires linked together with graphene. The graphene boosts the nanowires' electrical conductivity, meaning less silver is needed than a nanowire-only approach would require, while offering a more flexible, robust coating than ITO.
Yes — carbon nanotubes and various conductive polymers have also been explored as ITO replacements, alongside silver nanowire and graphene approaches. None has achieved the combination of manufacturability, cost and performance needed to displace ITO commercially yet.
Not at meaningful scale as of now — materials including carbon nanotubes, silver nanowires and graphene have all been promoted as alternatives, but none has been successful enough to replace ITO broadly, largely due to manufacturability, cost, and performance trade-offs versus the incumbent technology.
Beyond reducing indium dependence, the hybrid is described as more inexpensive, flexible and robust than ITO — a genuine advantage for applications like foldable or flexible displays, where ITO's brittleness is a real limitation, not just an indium-supply consideration.
