Challenges in High Resolution Inkjet Printing

喷墨打印是一种技术，是熟悉的任何人谁拥有个人电脑在家里作为一种方便的方式打印文本和摄影图像。除了这个应用之外，喷墨打印是一种多功能的制造工具，其应用范围从条形码和安全标记的工业打印到低成本印刷电子产品，太阳能电池和生物传感器。它也是聚合物和陶瓷3D打印的一种长期建立的方法。喷墨打印是一种数字技术，使设计和结构能够直接从存储在计算机上的文件中制造出来，而不需要生产中间模具，工具或屏幕。因此，在这些较新的制造应用中使用喷墨打印的巨大吸引力在于其有可能大大减少从概念到制造的交付时间。该建议是提供一个中央设施，使研究在所有这些应用喷墨打印，特别是使我们能够将这项研究从实验室转化为应用在工业和医药，这将是直接受益于英国。喷墨打印机套件将允许一些项目进行，包括：在纺织品上打印功能性材料和结构，使智能服装能够监测个人健康。在产品上打印射频识别设备（RFID）“隐形条形码”，以提高安全性，并允许在商店自动结账。提高我们对喷墨液滴如何形成以及它们在打印后如何与表面相互作用的科学的基本理解。开发新的油墨，允许打印新材料，如石墨烯。实现可植入体内的结构的3D打印，以实现组织的愈合和再生。

Inkjet printing is a technology that is familiar to anyone who has a personal computer at home as a convenient way of printing text and photographic images. In addition to this application, inkjet printing is a versatile manufacturing tool with a range of applications ranging from the industrial printing of barcodes and security marking to low cost printed electronics, solar cells and biosensors. It is also a long established method for 3D printing of polymers and ceramics. Inkjet printing is a digital technology, enabling designs and structures to be fabricated directly from files stored on a computer without the need to produce intermediate moulds, tools or screens. Thus a great attraction of using inkjet printing in these newer manufacturing applications is its potential to dramatically reduce lead times from concept to manufacture. This proposal is to provide a central facility to enable research in all of these applications for inkjet printing and in particular to enable us to translate this research from the laboratory to applications in industry and medicine that will be of direct benefit to the UK.The suite of inkjet printers will allow a number of projects to be carried out including: Printing functional materials and structures on textiles to allow smart clothing that could monitor the health of an individual. Printing radio frequency identification devices (RFID) "invisible bar codes" on products to improve security and allow automatic checkout in stores. Improve our fundamental understanding of the science of how inkjet drops are formed and how they interact with surfaces after printing. Develop new inks that allow the printing of new materials e.g. graphene. Enable the 3D printing of structures that can be implanted into the body to enable the healing and regeneration of tissues.