Printing technologies have long been used to produce various coatings on paper, primarily information-carrying ones. Thus, their use for creating paper-based devices seems no less intuitive than the use of writing techniques. However, printing techniques have a number of advantages that further account for the widespread use they have found in the creation of paper-based devices. These advantages include simplicity, low cost, ease of automation and scalability of the printing process, high reproducibility in coating, the ability to specify the most complex geometry of printed structures, and the ability to apply material selectively to different areas of the substrate without the use of masks. In addition, many printing technologies were designed to use paper as a substrate. Thus, they are widely utilized to produce a variety of paper-based devices, and this chapter is devoted to describing the principles behind printing methods such as inkjet, spray, screen, laser, gravure, flexography, etc. Various examples of the application of these methods in the creation of devices such as micropaper analytical devices based on microfluidic chips, transistors, electrochromic devices, etc. are also demonstrated.

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Printing Technology Used in Fabrication of Paper-Based Sensors and Devices

  • Philipp Yu. Gorobtsov,
  • Tatiana L. Simonenko,
  • Nikolay P. Simonenko,
  • Elizaveta P. Simonenko,
  • Ghenadii Korotcenkov

摘要

Printing technologies have long been used to produce various coatings on paper, primarily information-carrying ones. Thus, their use for creating paper-based devices seems no less intuitive than the use of writing techniques. However, printing techniques have a number of advantages that further account for the widespread use they have found in the creation of paper-based devices. These advantages include simplicity, low cost, ease of automation and scalability of the printing process, high reproducibility in coating, the ability to specify the most complex geometry of printed structures, and the ability to apply material selectively to different areas of the substrate without the use of masks. In addition, many printing technologies were designed to use paper as a substrate. Thus, they are widely utilized to produce a variety of paper-based devices, and this chapter is devoted to describing the principles behind printing methods such as inkjet, spray, screen, laser, gravure, flexography, etc. Various examples of the application of these methods in the creation of devices such as micropaper analytical devices based on microfluidic chips, transistors, electrochromic devices, etc. are also demonstrated.