Light to shape the future: from photolithography to 4D printing

J del Barrio… - Advanced Optical Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last few decades, the demand of polymeric structures with well‐defined features of
different size, dimension, and functionality has increased from various application areas …

Inkjet printing of functional materials for optical and photonic applications

J Alamán, R Alicante, JI Peña, C Sánchez-Somolinos - Materials, 2016 - mdpi.com
Inkjet printing, traditionally used in graphics, has been widely investigated as a valuable tool
in the preparation of functional surfaces and devices. This review focuses on the use of …

Revolution in flexible wearable electronics for temperature and pressure monitoring—A review

MA Butt, NL Kazanskiy, SN Khonina - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the last few decades, technology innovation has had a huge influence on our lives and
well-being. Various factors of observing our physiological characteristics are taken into …

Polymer waveguide-based optical sensors—interest in bio, gas, temperature, and mechanical sensing applications

SN Khonina, GS Voronkov, EP Grakhova… - Coatings, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the realization of photonic integrated devices, materials such as polymers are crucial.
Polymers have shown compatibility with several patterning techniques, are generally …

Integration of different graphene nanostructures with PDMS to form wearable sensors

S He, Y Zhang, J Gao, A Nag, A Rahaman - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a substantial review of the fabrication and implementation of graphene-
PDMS-based composites for wearable sensing applications. Graphene is a pivotal …

Advances in waveguide Bragg grating structures, platforms, and applications: an up-to-date appraisal

MA Butt, NL Kazanskiy, SN Khonina - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
A Bragg grating (BG) is a one-dimensional optical device that may reflect a specific
wavelength of light while transmitting all others. It is created by the periodic fluctuation of the …

Recent progress in 3D printed mold-based sensors

S He, S Feng, A Nag, N Afsarimanesh, T Han… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The paper presents a review of some of the significant research done on 3D printed mold-
based sensors performed in recent times. The utilization of the master molds to fabricate the …

Green strategies to printed sensors for healthcare applications

SF Kamarudin, M Mustapha, JK Kim - Polymer Reviews, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Printed sensors have been explored for more than two decades and have now gained
significant interest in real-world applications due to low cost, simple and scalable fabrication …

Printing and preparation of integrated optical waveguides for optronic sensor networks

T Wolfer, P Bollgruen, D Mager, L Overmeyer… - Mechatronics, 2016 - Elsevier
Printing processes are employed to create three-dimensional transparent structures which
serve as multimode optical waveguides in intelligent systems. The additive manufacturing …

Inkjet printing of soft, stretchable optical waveguides through the photopolymerization of high-profile linear patterns

A Samusjew, M Kratzer, A Moser… - … applied materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Optical waveguides have been fabricated via photopolymerization of stable, inkjet-printed
patterns. In order to obtain high-profile lines, the properties of both the ink and the substrate …