Formulating functional materials for additive manufacturing of flexible electronics

加法制造是一个快速增长的领域，它已经使结构性制造取得了许多进展。为了充分发挥其作为制造从医疗保健到光电子等应用的功能部件的技术潜力，需要适合AM工艺的新材料。该项目将专注于低维材料的开发和配方，以及用于喷墨工艺的功能聚合物。这些材料的性能(电子、光学、机械等)将根据具体应用而量身定做。该项目的成功开发有可能使人们对支撑材料配方的基本认识发生重大变化，所开发的油墨可能具有潜在的商业价值。

Additive Manufacturing is a fast growing field, that already enabled a number of advancements in structural manufacturing. To fulfil its potential as technology for manufacturing of functional parts for applications from healthcare to optoelectronics, new materials suitable for AM processes are needed. This project will focus on development and formulation of low dimensional materials as well as functional polymers for inkjet process. The properties of these materials (electronic, optical, mechanical, etc) will be tailored for specific applications. The successful development of this project has potential to bring a step change to fundamental understanding underpinning materials formulation, as well as the inks developed might have potential commercial value.