Fundamental fluid dynamics challenges in inkjet printing

D Lohse - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Inkjet printing is the most widespread technological application of microfluidics. It is
characterized by its high drop productivity, small volumes, and extreme reproducibility. This …

Nonstandard inkjets

OA Basaran, H Gao, PP Bhat - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Inkjet printers eject drops from microscopic nozzles and deposit them on substrates. For a
number of years after its initial development, inkjet printing remained a method for …

Inkjet printing for flexible and wearable electronics

K Yan, J Li, L Pan, Y Shi - Apl Materials, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Flexible and wearable electronic devices are emerging as the novel platform for portable
health monitoring, human–machine interaction, and some other electronic/optic …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental study of the parameters for stable drop-on-demand inkjet performance

Y Liu, B Derby - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We present an experimental study of drop-on-demand inkjet behavior, with particular
emphasis on the thresholds for drop generation and formation of satellite drops, using inks …

Breakup of liquid filaments

AA Castrejón-Pita, JR Castrejón-Pita, IM Hutchings - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
Whether a thin filament of liquid separates into two or more droplets or eventually
condenses lengthwise to form a single larger drop depends on the liquid's density, viscosity …

It's harder to splash on soft solids

CJ Howland, A Antkowiak, JR Castrejón-Pita… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Droplets splash when they impact dry, flat substrates above a critical velocity that depends
on parameters such as droplet size, viscosity, and air pressure. By imaging ethanol drops …

The roles of wettability and surface tension in droplet formation during inkjet printing

B He, S Yang, Z Qin, B Wen, C Zhang - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
This paper describes a lattice Boltzmann-based binary fluid model for inkjet printing. In this
model, a time-dependent driving force is applied to actuate the droplet ejection. As a result …

Droplet impact dynamics on textiles

G Zhang, MA Quetzeri-Santiago, CA Stone, L Botto… - Soft matter, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of textiles that repel droplets following droplet impact at a high velocity is a
common requirement in a number of applications, ranging from waterproof clothing to inkjet …

Shear stress analysis and its effects on cell viability and cell proliferation in drop-on-demand bioprinting

J Shi, B Wu, S Li, J Song, B Song… - Biomedical Physics & …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Bioprinting has emerged as a flexible technology in tissue engineering to mimic biological
and functional organizational complexity of native tissues. Drop-on-Demand (DoD) …

Jetting behavior in drop-on-demand printing: Laboratory experiments and numerical simulations

E Antonopoulou, OG Harlen, MA Walkley, N Kapur - Physical Review Fluids, 2020 - APS
The formation and evolution of micron-sized droplets of a Newtonian liquid generated on
demand in an industrial inkjet printhead are studied experimentally and simulated …