Nanowerk November 3, 2021 Current printing techniques for printing soft electronics (PSE) are still facing long-lasting challenges in addressing the conflict between printing speed and performance. A team of researchers in the US (California Polytechnic State University, UC San Diego, University of South Florida, Carnegie Mellon University) has developed a new corona-enabled electrostatic printing (CEP) technique for ultra-fast roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing of binder-free multifunctional e-skins. CEP-printed graphene e-skins were demonstrated to possess an outstanding strain sensing performance. The binder-free feature of the CEP-assembled networks enables them to provide pressure sensitivity as low as 2.5 Pa and capability to detect acoustic […]
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Researchers demonstrate fully recyclable printed electronics
EurekAlert April 26, 2021 Developments in transient electronics have focused on increasing the biocompatibility, whereas efforts to develop methods to recapture and reuse materials have focused on conducting materials, while neglecting other electronic materials. Researchers at Duke University have made all-carbon thin-film transistors using crystalline nanocellulose as a dielectric, carbon nanotubes as a semiconductor, graphene as a conductor and paper as a substrate. They developed a crystalline nanocellulose ink that is compatible with nanotube and graphene inks and can be written onto a paper substrate using room-temperature aerosol jet printing. The addition of mobile sodium ions to the dielectric improves […]