title: Controllable printing droplets for high-resolution patterns.
abstract: Inkjet printing has attracted wide attention due to the important applications in fabricating biological, optical, and electrical devices. During the inkjet printing process, the solutes prefer to deposit along the droplet periphery and form an inhomogeneous morphology, known as the coffee-ring effect. Besides, the feature size of printed dots or lines of conventional inkjet printing is usually limited to tens or even hundreds of micrometers. The above two issues greatly restrict the extensive application of printed patterns in high-performance devices. This paper reviews the recent advances in precisely controlling the printing droplets for high-resolution patterns and three-dimensional structures, with a focus on the development to suppress the coffee-ring effect and minimize the feature size of printed dots or lines. A perspective on the remaining challenges of the research is also proposed.
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Green Printing, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Minxuan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuang
authors.forename: Libin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yanlin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Song
mesh_terms: D011327:Printing / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D066330:Printing, Three-Dimensional / Q000295:instrumentation
keywords: coffee-ring effect; controllable droplets; inkjet printing; surface patterning