Inkjet printing, traditionally used in graphics, has been widely investigated as a valuable tool in the preparation of functional surfaces and devices. This review focuses on the use of inkjet printing technology for the manufacturing of different optical elements and photonic devices. The presented overview mainly surveys work done in the fabrication of micro-optical components such as microle...

As one method of additive manufacturing, inkjet printing technique which devoted to fabricate 3D components has been under investigation for decades. Optimizations have been raised up to improve the geometry accuracy, mechanical property, and so on using various approaches. In this paper, a novel inkjet 3D printer has been developed. This equipment consists of piezoelectric print head, servo fa...

Inkjet printing is emerging at the forefront of biosensor fabrication technologies. Parallel advances in both ink chemistry and printers have led to a biosensor manufacturing approach that is simple, rapid, flexible, high resolution, low cost, efficient for mass production, and extends the capabilities of devices beyond other manufacturing technologies. Here we review for the first time the fac...

An inkjet printing method is described to fabricate hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) sensors. Insoluble Prussian blue (PB) nanoparticles were dispersed in aqueous solvent, and were printed on screen printed carbon electrodes with a piezoelectric inkjet printer for H(2)O(2) detection. The electrochemical behavior of the printed sensors was studied by using cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry....

Two commercially available silver inks were inkjet printed to fabricate the seed tracks (seed layers) of radio frequency (RF) circuit structures on a high frequency substrate material. One of them is a nanoparticle based ink, and the other, a non-particle based organic silver complex ink. Subsequent to printing, these seed layers were copper plated using an electroless copper plating process, t...

Inkjet printing is widely used in functional product manufacturing. Performing a printing task requires communication and synchronization among multiple subsystems (e.g. motion and drop ejection), which introduces complexity in the overall printing system. A user interface has been developed, which enables users to input printing parameters and patterns for printing functional materials. The in...

In this study, the authors examined use of piezoelectric inkjet printing to apply an antifungal agent, voriconazole, to the surfaces of biodegradable polyglycolic acid microneedles. Polyglycolic acid microneedles with sharp tips (average tip radius = 25 ± 3 μm) were prepared using a combination of injection molding and drawing lithography. The elastic modulus (9.9 ± 0.3 GPa) and hardness (588.2...

The development of low-cost smart labels with sensing capabilities is raising a high interest among the scientific community due to the increasing need for monitoring ambient conditions in the fields of wearable electronics and logistics. Printed electronics gathers all the requirements to enable the development of cost-effective smart systems, the reason why the framework of this thesis, the E...

In this study a novel method of simultaneous gene transfection and cell delivery based on inkjet printing technology is described. Plasmids encoding green fluorescent protein (GFP) were co-printed with living cells (porcine aortic endothelial (PAE) cells) through the ink cartridge nozzles of modified commercial inkjet printers. Agaorse gel electrophoresis analysis showed there was no obvious st...

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 instability involved in the line formation process. The printing variables included surface energy, droplet overlap ratio, printing frequency, a numb...