The research aims at developing electrical interconnection technologies for the microelectronics industry. On the one hand, a substrate is needed with a conductive pattern. Currently, this is mostly done by an etching technology, which means a lot of expensive metal is wasted. In this sense an additive alternative would be attractive, which is why I’m looking into the possibilities of printing ...

Printing technologies specifically digital inkjet printing, offer possibilities in the production of individualized medicines. The main advantage of inkjet printing includes the ability to dispense uniform droplets in the picoliter range with high degree of accuracy to allow dose personalization. The pharmaceutical ink formulation has to be designed with respect to its viscosity and surface ten...

Since its invention in ancient times, relief printing, commonly called flexography, has been used to mass-produce artifacts ranging from decorative graphics to printed media. Now, higher-resolution flexography is essential to manufacturing low-cost, large-area printed electronics. However, because of contact-mediated liquid instabilities and spreading, the resolution of flexographic printing us...

Smart and mechanically flexible energy harvesting/storage devices are attractive for the immensely growing electronic, automobile, medical, aerospace markets. The leading challenges with current their limitations regarding installation on curvy design, high-manufacturing cost, lower production rate. Therefore, new design strategies in terms of materials, ability to scale up fabrication imperati...

Flexographic printing is promising for large-area electronics due to high print-speed and roll-to-roll capability. There have been recent attempts in using graphene as an active pigment inks, most notably slower techniques such inkjet screen printing. However, formulation of graphene-enhanced inks high-speed its effect on key metrics never investigated. Herein, nanoplatelets (GPs) are incorpora...