Pervasive liquid metal printed electronics: From concept incubation to industry

Metal-based Inkjet Inks for Printed Electronics

A review on applications of metal-based inkjet inks for printed electronics with a particular focus on inks containing metal nanoparticles, complexes and metallo-organic compounds. The review describes the preparation of such inks and obtaining conductive patterns by using various sintering methods: thermal, photonic, microwave, plasma, electrical, and chemically triggered. Various applications...

Recent Advancements in Liquid Metal Flexible Printed Electronics: Properties, Technologies, and Applications

This article presents an overview on typical properties, technologies, and applications of liquid metal based flexible printed electronics. The core manufacturing material—room-temperature liquid metal, currently mainly represented by gallium and its alloys with the properties of excellent resistivity, enormous bendability, low adhesion, and large surface tension, was focused on in particular. ...

Electrical stimulation towards melanoma therapy via liquid metal printed electronics on skin

BACKGROUND We proposed a method of using electrical stimulation for treatment of malignant melanoma through directly spray-printing liquid metal on skin as soft electrodes to deliver low intensity, intermediate frequency electric fields. METHODS With patterned conductive liquid metal components on mice skin and under assistance of a signal generator, a sine wave electrical power with voltage ...

Printed Electronics

3D Printed Electronics

PARC has been a leading innovator in printed electronics with over a decade of experience in large area electronics, application of novel and current printing technology to industrial applications and the printing of electronic circuits and devices. We are currently applying this knowledge to the concept of printing multi-material 3 dimensional objects with electronic and/or mechanical function...