Inkjet printing is novel approach in drug manufacturing that enables dispensing precise volumes of ink onto substrates. Optimal substrate properties including suitable mechanical characteristic are recognized as crucial to achieve desired dosage form...
Copper substrates were wrought to have micro-grooves for packaging by micro-stamping with use of a AISI316 stainless steel micro-punch array. The micro-texture of this arrayed punch was first tailored and compiled into CAD data. A screen film was pre...
This study focuses on preparation and valuation of the biodegradable, native, and modified gelatin film as screen-printing substrates. Modified gelatin film was prepared by crosslinking with various crosslinking agents and the electrode array was des...
This study explores the fabrication and electrochemical performance of flexible NiCo2O4-based pseudo-capacitor electrodes, inkjet-printed onto flexible Kapton substrates. To circumvent the insulating nature of Kapton, a thin Au interlayer (20 nm) was...
Printing nano-ink with platinum nanoparticles to generate conductive microstructures for electronics on different types of substrates has gained increasing interest in recent years. To solve the problem of the low conductivity of platinum (Pt) nano-i...
A simple and novel method for the deposition of polypyrrole (PPy) and cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) composites on different fiber substrates by reactive ink-jet printing was proposed. PPy/CNCs composites were successfully prepared, and the surface resi...
Printed flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) is finding an increasing number of applications in the fields of displays, sensors, actuators and in energy harvesting and storage. The technology involves the printing of conductive and insulating patterns a...
The structural properties and whiteness of the substrate surface markedly effect printing quality and are closely related to the primer coating processes. Herein, four different roller coating schemes were applied on MDF surfaces to change their stru...
In this study, we investigated geometrical characteristics of the inkjet-printed lines with non-zero receding contact angle (CA) on plasma-treated substrates in terms of various printing variables and analyzed the fluidic behavior and hydrodynamic in...
This study explores the intricate interaction between the properties of textile substrates and screen-printing parameters in shaping fabric circuits using silver conductive ink. Via analyzing key variables such as fabric type, mesh density, and the n...
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) technology is an attractive method for the prompt and accurate on-site screening of illicit drugs. As portable Raman systems are available for on-site screening, the readiness of SERS technology for sensing...
Flexible electronics is a field gathering a growing interest among researchers and companies with widely varying applications, such as organic light emitting diodes, transistors as well as many different sensors. If the circuit should be portable or...
3D printing is one of the most promising manufacturing methods in the most developed technological fields, including microwave hardware fabrication. On the other hand, the well-known manufacturing methods of planar substrate integrated circuits allow...
This study characterizes and compares the parameters of the quality reproduction of fine elements in flexography on coated and uncoated paper as well as on OPP film (oriented polypropylene). A monochrome test form was created and printed using cyan U...
Electrohydrodynamic jet (e-jet) printing is a modern and decent fabrication method widely used to print high-resolution versatile microstructures with features down to 10 μm. It is currently difficult to break nanoscale resolution (<100 nm) due...
With the growing significance of printed sensors on the electronics market, new demands on quality and reproducibility have arisen. While most printing processes on standard substrates (e.g., Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)) are well-defined, the pr...
This article proposes a low-loss and light 3D-printed substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW). Despite the use of lossy polylactic acid (PLA) material, insertion loss is reduced, and bandwidth is increased due to a honeycomb substrate similar to air. To...
Sol based SnO2 precursor was synthetized by aqueous sol-gel route, then transformed into a stable ink with appropriate viscosity and surface tension to be inkjet printed and sintered at relatively moderate temperature. Plastic foil with thickness of...
Adhesion between fused deposition modelling (FDM) printed polymers and textile substrates is critical for durable printed-on-textile hybrids. Since no dedicated test standard exists for additively manufactured textile interfaces, many studies use T-p...
This paper presents the feasibility of a fully inkjet-printed, microwave flexible gas sensor based on a resonant electromagnetic transducer in microstrip technology and the impact of the printing process that affects the characteristics of the gas se...
Nowadays, digital printing technologies such as inkjet and aerosol jet printing are gaining more importance since they have proven to be suitable for the assembly of complex microsystems. This also applies to medical technology applications like hear...
In this paper, we propose a stacked dual-patch antenna with 3D printed thick quasi-air substrates and a cavity wall for wideband applications. To achieve the theoretical maximum bandwidth of the patch antenna, the quality factor of the system needs t...
Intelligent packaging is an emerging technology, aiming to improve the standard communication function of packaging. Radio frequency identification (RFID) assisted smart packaging is of high interest, but the uptake is limited as the market needs cos...
The implementation of the Chemical Solution Deposition (CSD) methodology with the Drop on Demand (DoD) inkjet printing (IJP) technology has been successfully employed to develop a Solution Deposition Planarization (SDP) method. We have used nanocryst...
This paper presents a direct contact printing method to obtain arrayed metallic nanostructures on a soft polymer substrate. It utilizes a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) mold replicated from silicon molds to transfer metallic nanopatterns onto a polymer...
An ON/OFF force sensor is fabricated by inkjet-printing process on flexible substrates. The goal is to obtain two distinct impedance states respectively to the applied force in order to be easily identifiable by a conditioning electronics for ultra-l...
In order to get rid of the dependence on expensive photolithography technology and related facilities, an economic and simple design and fabrication technology for digital microfluidics (DMF) is proposed. The electrodes pattern was generated by inkje...
In this study, an organic–inorganic (O–I) nanohybrid obtained by incorporating an alkoxysilane-functionalized amphiphilic polymer precursor into a SiO2–TiO2 hybrid network was successfully utilized as a buffer layer to fabricate a f...
The use of inexpensive gas sensors is a real need for many applications requiring the use of disposable sensors. This work deals with the realization and characterization of a low cost CO2 sensor realized by rapid prototyping techniques. In particula...
Background/Objectives: This study investigated the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and match barefoot prints belonging to the same individual on soft and sandy soil substrates. Recognizing footprints on soil is challenging due to low...
UV–digital printing belongs to the commonly used method for custom large-area substrate decoration. Despite low surface energy and adhesion, transparent polymer materials, such as polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) and polycarbonate (PC), represent...
The integration of electronics into the process flow of the additive manufacturing of 3D objects is demonstrated using water soluble films as a temporary flexible substrate. Three process variants are detailed to evaluate their capabilities to meet t...
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) were synthesised using ultrasonic spray pyrolysis (USP) with the addition of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) as a stabilising agent and subsequently dried via lyophilisation. The resulting dried AuNPs were redispersed in ethanol...
High-quality, uniaxially oriented, and flexible PbZr0.52Ti0.48O3 (PZT) films were fabricated on flexible RbLaNb2O7/BaTiO3 (RLNO/BTO)-coated polyimide (PI) substrates. All layers were fabricated by a photo-assisted chemical solution deposition (PCSD)...
Several research methodologies have recently been developed to allow for the patterning of conductive lines on elastomeric rubber substrates. Specifically, various conductive materials, substrates, and fabrication techniques were investigated to deve...
This paper provides a feasibility study of a non-invasive microwave-based glucose-sensing system based on a small printed slot antenna with etched step-impedance resonators (SIRs) on an FR4 substrate in the ground plane at approximately 5.7 GHz. The...
This study systematically investigates the influence of 3D printing parameters on the surface morphology and coating performance of polylactic acid (PLA) substrates finished with traditional Chinese lacquer. PLA specimens were fabricated using fused...
Printing technology has revolutionized manufacturing by enabling high-volume, multipurpose, low-cost production with minimal environmental impact. This advancement has led to the integration of flexible electronic devices, such as displays, actuators...
This study examines the effect of energetic surface treatment on the adhesion strength of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates. The purpose of this work is to determine the surface wetta...
This paper investigates the measurement capability, dynamic response, and mechanical reliability of all 3D-printed multi-material thermistors. The thermistor design consisted of three main components: a polycarbonate (PC) substrate, a silver (Ag) ele...
The direct fabrication of micron-thickness patterned electronics consisting of patterned PVA films and CNT micropatterns still faces considerable challenges. Here, we demonstrated the integrated fabrication of PVA films of micron-thickness and CNT-ba...
Printed electronics on flexible substrates has attracted tremendous research interest research thanks its low cost, large area production capability and environmentally friendly advantages. Optimal characteristics of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) bas...
Satellite droplets and macroscopic distortions, induced by the non-Newtonian rheological behavior of ceramic inks, severely compromise the 3D inkjet printing of multilayer ceramics. To address these issues, we establish a two-phase fluid dynamics mod...
In this research, a flexible inkjet-printed temperature sensor with in-house silver nanoparticles ink is presented and compared with the sensor printed with commercial silver nanoparticles ink. These sensors have an average width of 0.5 ± 0.04...
Electrohydrodynamic jet (e-jet) printing has very promising applications due to its high printing resolution and material compatibility. It is necessary to know how to choose the printing parameters to get the right ejection volume. The previous scal...
A printed passive radiofrequency identification (RFID) tag in the ultra-high frequency band for light and temperature monitoring is presented. The whole tag has been manufactured by printing techniques on a flexible substrate. Antenna and interconnec...
The results of studying the morphological peculiarities of polycrystalline CdS1−xSex films, obtained by screen printing, with well-formed grain boundaries of high structural quality are presented here. The developed method for screen printing provide...
This paper describes the fabrication and the characterization of an original example of a miniaturized resistive-type humidity sensor, printed on flexible substrate in a large-scale manner. The fabrication process involves laser ablation for the desi...
Background/Objectives: Although technology has progressed and novel dosage forms have been developed, tablets are still the most used form of medication. However, the present manufacturing methods of these oral solid dosage forms offer limited capaci...
Due to the rising problem of deforestation, slow renewability, and higher cost of wood sources, it is of great importance for the paper and packaging industry to find suitable, environmentally friendly alternative sources of cellulose fibers. Much of...
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