Citation: Du Zhonghui, Yu Xinhong, Han Yanchun. Inkjet printing of viscoelastic polymer inks[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2018, 29(3): 399-404. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2017.09.031 shu

Inkjet printing of viscoelastic polymer inks

Du Zhonghui ^a,b ,
Yu Xinhong ^a,, ,
Han Yanchun ^a,,

a.
State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China
b.
University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Corresponding author: Yu Xinhong, xhyu@ciac.ac.cn Han Yanchun, ychan@ciac.ac.cn
Received Date: 26 July 2017
Revised Date: 1 September 2017
Accepted Date: 12 September 2017
Available Online: 14 March 2017

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Inkjet printing is a new fabricating method that can realize the precise film deposition. For polymer inks, the coil-stretch transition of polymer chains always impacts the ink droplet formation and a beads-on-a string structure filament is formed, thus generating unwanted satellite droplets. This review provides a short introduction of the dynamic process of the droplet formation. Then fluid rheological requirements for a printable polymer ink are summarized. Finally the strain hardening phenomenon of polymer chains in the filament formation and its impact on polymer ink-jetting are discussed. The research of viscoelastic polymer inks shows that rheological parameters and viscoelasticity are two key factors that determine the printability of polymer inks.
- Inkjet printing,
- Droplet formation,
- Rheological properties,
- Polymer inks,
- Coil-stretch transition
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