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Abstract Lightweight energy storage devices are essential for developing compact wearable and distributed electronics, and additive manufacturing offers a scalable, low‐cost approach to fabricating such devices with complex geometries. However, additive manufacturing of high‐performance, on‐demand energy storage devices remains challenging due to the need for stable, multifunctional nanomaterial inks. Herein, the development of 2‐dimensional (2D) titanium carbide (Ti3C2TxMXene) ink that is compatible with aerosol jet printing for energy storage applications is demonstrated. The developed MXene ink demonstrates long‐term chemical and physical stability, ensuring consistent printability and achieving high‐resolution prints (≈45 µm width lines) with minimal overspray. The high‐resolution aerosol‐jet printed MXene supercapacitor achieves an areal capacitance of 122 mF cm−2and a volumetric capacitance of 611 F cm−3, placing them among the highest‐performing printed supercapacitors reported to date. These findings highlight the potential of aerosol jet printing with MXene inks for on‐demand, scalable, and cost‐effective fabrication of printed electronic and electrochemical devices.
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Aerosol jet printing of surface acoustic wave microfluidic devices
Abstract The addition of surface acoustic wave (SAW) technologies to microfluidics has greatly advanced lab-on-a-chip applications due to their unique and powerful attributes, including high-precision manipulation, versatility, integrability, biocompatibility, contactless nature, and rapid actuation. However, the development of SAW microfluidic devices is limited by complex and time-consuming micro/nanofabrication techniques and access to cleanroom facilities for multistep photolithography and vacuum-based processing. To simplify the fabrication of SAW microfluidic devices with customizable dimensions and functions, we utilized the additive manufacturing technique of aerosol jet printing. We successfully fabricated customized SAW microfluidic devices of varying materials, including silver nanowires, graphene, and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS). To characterize and compare the acoustic actuation performance of these aerosol jet printed SAW microfluidic devices with their cleanroom-fabricated counterparts, the wave displacements and resonant frequencies of the different fabricated devices were directly measured through scanning laser Doppler vibrometry. Finally, to exhibit the capability of the aerosol jet printed devices for lab-on-a-chip applications, we successfully conducted acoustic streaming and particle concentration experiments. Overall, we demonstrated a novel solution-based, direct-write, single-step, cleanroom-free additive manufacturing technique to rapidly develop SAW microfluidic devices that shows viability for applications in the fields of biology, chemistry, engineering, and medicine.
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- PAR ID:
- 10483461
- Publisher / Repository:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Microsystems & Nanoengineering
- Volume:
- 10
- Issue:
- 1
- ISSN:
- 2055-7434
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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