scholarly journals Flexible Electronics: One‐Step Liquid Metal Transfer Printing: Toward Fabrication of Flexible Electronics on Wide Range of Substrates (Adv. Mater. Technol. 12/2018)

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 1870045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Guo ◽  
Jianbo Tang ◽  
Shijin Dong ◽  
Ju Lin ◽  
Hongzhang Wang ◽  
...  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 1800265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Guo ◽  
Jianbo Tang ◽  
Shijin Dong ◽  
Ju Lin ◽  
Hongzhang Wang ◽  
...  

Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroki Ota ◽  
Nyamjargal Ochirkhuyag ◽  
Ryosuke Matsuda ◽  
Zihao Song ◽  
Fumika Nakamura ◽  
...  

Research on liquid metals has been steadily garnering more interest in recent times because the properties of these metals are conducive to flexible electronics applications; further, these metals are in...


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 7443-7452
Author(s):  
Jianyu Xu ◽  
Hongda Guo ◽  
Hongyao Ding ◽  
Qiao Wang ◽  
Ziqing Tang ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Barbieri ◽  
Ioritz Sorzabal Bellido ◽  
Alison J. Beckett ◽  
Ian A. Prior ◽  
Jo Fothergill ◽  
...  

AbstractIn this work, we introduce a one-step strategy that is suitable for continuous flow manufacturing of antimicrobial PDMS materials. The process is based on the intrinsic capacity of PDMS to react to certain organic solvents, which enables the incorporation of antimicrobial actives such as salicylic acid (SA), which has been approved for use in humans within pharmaceutical products. By combining different spectroscopic and imaging techniques, we show that the surface properties of PDMS remain unaffected while high doses of the SA are loaded inside the PDMS matrix. The SA can be subsequently released under physiological conditions, delivering a strong antibacterial activity. Furthermore, encapsulation of SA inside the PDMS matrix ensured a diffusion-controlled release that was tracked by spatially resolved Raman spectroscopy, Attenuated Total Reflectance IR (ATR-IR), and UV-Vis spectroscopy. The biological activity of the new material was evaluated directly at the surface and in the planktonic state against model pathogenic bacteria, combining confocal laser scanning microscopy, electron microscopy, and cell viability assays. The results showed complete planktonic inhibition for clinically relevant strains of Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, and a reduction of up to 4 orders of magnitude for viable sessile cells, demonstrating the efficacy of these surfaces in preventing the initial stages of biofilm formation. Our approach adds a new option to existing strategies for the antimicrobial functionalisation of a wide range of products such as catheters, wound dressings and in-dwelling medical devices based on PDMS.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1525
Author(s):  
Sergey Vorobyev ◽  
Elena Vishnyakova ◽  
Maxim Likhatski ◽  
Alexander Romanchenko ◽  
Ivan Nemtsev ◽  
...  

Carey Lea silver hydrosol is a rare example of very concentrated colloidal solutions produced with citrate as only protective ligands, and prospective for a wide range of applications, whose properties have been insufficiently studied up to now. Herein, the reactivity of the immobilized silver nanoparticles toward oxidation, sulfidation, and sintering upon their interaction with hydrogen peroxide, sulfide ions, and chlorocomplexes of Au(III), Pd(II), and Pt(IV) was investigated using SEM and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The reactions decreased the number of carboxylic groups of the citrate-derived capping and promoted coalescence of 7 nm Ag NPs into about 40 nm ones, excluding the interaction with hydrogen peroxide. The increased nanoparticles form loose submicrometer aggregates in the case of sulfide treatment, raspberry-like micrometer porous particles in the media containing Pd(II) chloride, and densely sintered particles in the reaction with inert H2PtCl6 complexes, probably via the formation of surface Ag-Pt alloys. The exposure of Ag NPs to HAuCl4 solution produced compact Ag films along with nanocrystals of Au metal and minor Ag and AgCl. The results are promising for chemical ambient temperature sintering and rendering silver-based nanomaterials, for example, for flexible electronics, catalysis, and other applications.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongjin Xie ◽  
Qiuyi Luo ◽  
Shen Zhou ◽  
Mei Zu ◽  
Haifeng Cheng

Inkjet printing of functional material has shown a wide range of application in advertzing, OLED display, printed electronics and other specialized utilities that require high-precision, mask-free, direct-writing deposition technique. Nevertheless,...


2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andris Bojarevičs ◽  
Toms Beinerts ◽  
Mārtiņš Sarma ◽  
Yurii Gelfgat

AbstractMultiple configurations of synchronously rotating permanent magnet cylinders magnetized across the axes are proposed for liquid metal stirring for homogenization as well as for pumping. Universal analytical model is used for an initial parameter analysis. Then experimental setups were built to perform physical modelling of the industrial applications, e.g. large-scale metallurgical furnaces. Velocity distribution in the liquid metal was measured using different methods: the Ultrasound Doppler anemometry and the potential difference probes. The study shows that the cylindrical permanent magnet setups can achieve up to 10 times higher energy efficiency compared to AC inductors and have potential of wide-range industrial application, e.g. can be used as stirrers for secondary aluminium furnaces with up to 50 cm thick walls.


2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (9) ◽  
pp. 2925-2932 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Brendlé

The sol–gel process involving hydrolysis and condensation reactions is an attractive way to form siloxane based hybrid materials since it is a one-step method performed under mild conditions.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 1700264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Peng ◽  
Kang Wu ◽  
Liangxiong Lv ◽  
Chuan Fei Guo ◽  
Zhigang Wu

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