Inkjet Printing of Carbon Nanotubes

Abstract

In an attempt to give a brief introduction to carbon nanotube inkjet printing, this review paper discusses the issues that come along with preparing and printing carbon nanotube ink. Carbon nanotube inkjet printing is relatively new, but it has great potential for broad applications in flexible and printable electronics, transparent electrodes, electronic sensors, and so on due to its low cost and the extraordinary properties of carbon nanotubes. In addition to the formulation of carbon nanotube ink and its printing technologies, recent progress and achievements of carbon nanotube inkjet printing are reviewed in detail with brief discussion on the future outlook of the technology.

Large scale inkjet-printing of carbon nanotubes electrodes for antioxidant assays in blood bags

“…A high resolution in the micrometer range is not easy to achieve by this technology and therefore a more precise technique is required to obtain highly reproducible sensors. Nowadays, inkjet printing of functional materials has become one very promising mask-free microfabrication technique that allows for a precise deposition of different materials such as CNTs [37][38][39][40][41]. Most of the functional CNT sensors have been deposited so far over a conductive metallic or carbonbased layer to ensure sufficient electrical conductivity among all the deposited CNTs.…”

Lab-on-a-Chip Devices and Micro-Total Analysis Systems

“…A huge variety of substrates (glass, plastics, ceramics, and paper) and inks can be used. Different kind of inks can be deposited by inkjet from metallic nanoparticles solutions (silver (Perelaer et al 2008), copper ), gold (Jensen et al 2011) to carbon based solutions (carbon nanotubes (Tortorich and Choi 2013), graphene ) and conducting polymer (PEDOT (Xiong and Liu 2012). Figure 6.4 shows how inkjet printing works.…”

Highly Loaded Mildly Edge‐Oxidized Graphene Nanosheet Dispersions for Large‐Scale Inkjet Printing of Electrochemical Sensors

“…Inkjet printing of a large range of materials has been reported ranging from metal/metal oxide nanoparticles, polymers to carbonaceous materials like carbon black, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) or graphene and its derivatives . Metal nanoparticles, like Ag, Pt, Au or Cu, are attractive for many sensing applications but are often expensive or unstable ( e. g .…”