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Published on: May 11, 2017
Inkjet Printing in Liquid Environments
Yanzhen Zhang1, Dege Li2, Yonghong Liu2
1School of Mathematics and Science, Center of Interface Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, D-26111, Oldenburg, Germany.
Abstract:
Inkjet printing (IJP) is an old but still vivifying technique for flexible and cost-effective printing of various kinds of functional inks. Normally, IJP can only work in gaseous environments. Here, it is shown that traditional piezoelectric IJP can be performed in liquid environments with a totally different droplet dispensing and manipulating mechanism. With the same piezoelectric nozzle, the volume of the droplets printed in a carrier liquid can be thousands of times smaller than those printed in air. Therefore, this work demonstrates a working mode of traditional IJP with a highly improved resolution opening possibilities for novel applications of the IJP technique.
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