scholarly journals Direct Fabrication of Micron-Thickness PVA-CNT Patterned Films by Integrating Micro-Pen Writing of PVA Films and Drop-on-Demand Printing of CNT Micropatterns

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2335
Author(s):  
Jun Luo ◽  
Zhixuan Zhao ◽  
Lehua Qi ◽  
Hongcheng Lian ◽  
Yufang Zhao

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-based patterns by utilising micro-pen writing and drop-on-demand printing in sequence. Patterned PVA films of 1–5 μm in thickness were written first using proper micro-pen writing parameters, including the writing gap, the substrate moving velocity, and the working pressure. Then, CNT droplets were printed on PVA films that were cured at 55–65 °C for 3–15 min, resulting in neat CNT patterns. In addition, an inertia-pseudopartial wetting spreading model was established to release the dynamics of the droplet spreading process over thin viscoelastic films. Uniform and dense CNT lines with a porosity of 2.2% were printed on PVA substrates that were preprocessed at 55 °C for 9 min using a staggered overwriting method with the proper number of layers. Finally, we demonstrated the feasibility of this hybrid printing method by printing a patterned PVA-CNT film and a micro-ribbon. This study provides a valid method for directly fabricating micron-thickness PVA-CNT electronics. The proposed method can also provide guidance on the direct writing of other high-molecular polymer materials and printing inks of other nanosuspensions.

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 4474-4484

This review is about the most important matters for advancing inkjet printing with a focus on piezoelectric droplet on demand (DOD) inkjet thin-film devices. The Nano material compounds can be incorporated into a polymeric matrix and deposited by piezoelectric inkjet printing. Current problems in advanced printers are discussed as embodied in liquid filament breakup along with satellite droplet formation and reduction in droplet sizes. Various model that predicts the printability of dilute, mono disperse polymer solutions in drop-on-demand “DOD” inkjet printing have been discussed. For satellite droplets, it is exhibited which liquid filament break-up treatment can be predicted via using a combination of two pi-numbers, including the Weber number. The layer was printed over other printed layers including electrodes composed of the conductive polymers and also several polymers. It has been discussed, some polymer materials are suitable for deposition and curing at low to moderate temperatures and atmospheric pressure, allowing for the use of polymers or paper as supportive substrates for the devices, and greatly facilitating the fabrication process. Furthermore, through this review, it has been discussed scaling analyses for designing and operating of inkjet heads. Because of droplet sizes from inkjet nozzles are typically on the order of nozzle dimensions, a numerical simulation is shown for explaining how to reduce droplet sizes through employing a novel input waveform impressed on the inkjet-head liquid inflow without changing the nozzle geometries. Regardless of their any less performance, inkjet printer head as a technique for the mentioned devices presents many advantages, the most notable of which are quickly fabricating and patterning, substrate flexibilities, avoidance of material wastage via applying “DoD” technologies.


2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (9) ◽  
pp. 4000-4005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaakov Idell ◽  
Nicholas Watkins ◽  
Andrew Pascall ◽  
Jason Jeffries ◽  
Kerri Blobaum

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 768-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
In Ho Choi ◽  
Young Kwon Kim ◽  
Sangmin Lee ◽  
Seung Hee Lee ◽  
Joonwon Kim

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 887-892 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Zhao ◽  
J.R.G. Evans ◽  
M.J. Edirisinghe ◽  
J.H. Song
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2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Stein ◽  
Michael Dobler ◽  
Tim Radel ◽  
Markus Strauß ◽  
Hannes Breitschwerdt ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 1636-1644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi XU ◽  
N. ELLENDT ◽  
Xing-gang LI ◽  
V. UHLENWINKEL ◽  
U. FRITSCHING

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