Issue 17, 2004
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Ink-jet printing of polymers – from single dots to thin film libraries

Emine Tekin,a   Berend-Jan de Gansa  and  Ulrich S. Schubert*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Laboratory of Macromolecular Chemistry and Nanoscience, Eindhoven University of Technology and Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
E-mail: u.s.schubert@tue.nl
Fax: 0031 40 247 4186

Abstract

Recent results on the ink-jet printing of polymer films are presented. Films that were printed using an ink-jet process based on one single solvent always suffered from ring formation, i.e. the coffee-drop effect. This drawback could be overcome by the use of solvent mixtures. The effects of solvent mass ratio, print head velocity, dot spacing and printing method were investigated and optimized to reproducibly obtain homogeneous polymer films (6 × 6 mm size). The results obtained represent an important step towards the application of ink-jet printing for the controlled deposition of polymer dots and libraries.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B407478E
Article type
Paper
Submitted
17 May 2004
Accepted
20 Jul 2004
First published
30 Jul 2004

J. Mater. Chem., 2004,14, 2627-2632

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Ink-jet printing of polymers – from single dots to thin film libraries

E. Tekin, B. de Gans and U. S. Schubert, J. Mater. Chem., 2004, 14, 2627 DOI: 10.1039/B407478E

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