Recent interest in flexible electronics and wearable devices has created a demand for fast and highly repeatable printing processes suitable for device manufacturing. Robust printing technology is critical for the integration of sensors and other devices on flexible substrates such as paper and textile. An atmospheric pressure plasma-based printing process has been developed to deposit different types of nanomaterials on flexible substrates. Multiwalled carbon nanotubes were deposited on paper to demonstrate site-selective deposition as well as direct printing without any type of patterning. Plasma-printed nanotubes were compared with non-plasma-printed samples under similar gas flow and other experimental conditions and found to be denser with higher conductivity. The utility of the nanotubes on the paper substrate as a biosensor and chemical sensor was demonstrated by the detection of dopamine, a neurotransmitter, and ammonia, respectively.
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21 March 2016
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March 22 2016
Plasma jet printing for flexible substrates
Ram P. Gandhiraman;
Ram P. Gandhiraman
1Center for Nanotechnology,
NASA Ames Research Center
, Moffett Field, California 94035, USA
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Eric Singh;
Eric Singh
1Center for Nanotechnology,
NASA Ames Research Center
, Moffett Field, California 94035, USA
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Diana C. Diaz-Cartagena;
Diana C. Diaz-Cartagena
1Center for Nanotechnology,
NASA Ames Research Center
, Moffett Field, California 94035, USA
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Dennis Nordlund;
Dennis Nordlund
2Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource,
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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Jessica Koehne;
Jessica Koehne
1Center for Nanotechnology,
NASA Ames Research Center
, Moffett Field, California 94035, USA
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M. Meyyappan
M. Meyyappan
1Center for Nanotechnology,
NASA Ames Research Center
, Moffett Field, California 94035, USA
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Appl. Phys. Lett. 108, 123103 (2016)
Article history
Received:
December 24 2015
Accepted:
February 29 2016
Citation
Ram P. Gandhiraman, Eric Singh, Diana C. Diaz-Cartagena, Dennis Nordlund, Jessica Koehne, M. Meyyappan; Plasma jet printing for flexible substrates. Appl. Phys. Lett. 21 March 2016; 108 (12): 123103. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4943792
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