title: Facile method for fabricating flexible substrates with embedded, printed silver lines.
abstract: Insertion, curing and delamination is presented as a simple and scalable method for creating flexible substrates with embedded, printed silver lines. In a sequential process, aerosol-jet printed silver lines are transferred from a donor substrate to a thin reactive polymer that is directly adhered to a flexible substrate. Due to the unique ability of the aerosol jet to print continuous lines on a low energy surface, a 100% transfer of the printed electrodes is obtained, as confirmed by electrical measurements. Moreover, the root-mean-square roughness of the embedded electrodes is less than 10 nm, which is much lower than that for their as-printed form. The embedded electrodes are robust and do not show a significant degradation in electrical performance after thousands of bending cycles.
authors: Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States.
authors: Ankit
authors: A
authors: Mahajan
authors: Lorraine F
authors: LF
authors: Francis
authors: C Daniel
authors: CD
authors: Frisbie
mesh_terms: D004566:Electrodes; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D036103:Nanotechnology; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry; D011327:Printing; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers; D012834:Silver