A Feasibility Study of Roll to Roll Printing on Graphene

Abstract

Roll to roll process is one of the famous printing techniques that are possible to create graphic and electronic device on variable substrate by using conductive ink. Graphene is an example of material that can be used as printing ink which usually used in producing micro-scale electronic devices. Here, it is proposed that extending roll to roll printing technique into the multiple micro-scale printing fine solid line onto substrate by using graphene as a printing ink. Flexography is a high speed roll to roll printing technique commonly used in paper printing industry. And this study elaborates the feasibility of graphene as a printing ink use in combination of flexography and micro-contact or micro-flexo printing for micro fine solid line. This paper will illustrates the review of graphene in producing multiple micro-solid lines printing capability for the application of printing electronic, graphic and bio-medical.

Recent Advances in High-Throughput Nanomaterial Manufacturing for Hybrid Flexible Bioelectronics

“…As described in Section 2.1 , the optimized ink was able to be printed with trace widths of <30 µm with conductivities >10,000 S/m [ 53 ]. Although initial feasibility studies have investigated flexographic graphene printing, no successful use in soft bioelectronics has been reported to date [ 122 ]. Likewise, many inkjet applications select to use GO instead of graphene, but graphene printing has been successfully reported.…”

Angle resolved x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (ARXPS) analysis of lanthanum oxide for micro-flexography printing

“…This work employed heavy-weight dendritic thioethers as ink and octadecanethiol as backfilling agent. Graphene ink was another solution in order to achieve high speed printing in electronic with simple, rapid, low cost method, less waste and roll-to-roll capability which practically used in electronic printing industries [6].…”