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Transfer Printing of Metallic Microstructures on Adhesion-Promoting Hydrogel Substrates
Fabrication schemes that integrate inorganic microstructures with hydrogel substrates are essential for advancing flexible electronics. A transfer printing process that is made possible through the design and synthesis of adhesion-promoting hydrogels as target substrates is reported. This fabrication technique may advance ultracompliant electronics by melding microfabricated structures with swollen hydrogel substrates.
@article{wu2015transfer, title = {Transfer Printing of Metallic Microstructures on Adhesion-Promoting Hydrogel Substrates}, journal = {Advanced Materials}, abstract = {Fabrication schemes that integrate inorganic microstructures with hydrogel substrates are essential for advancing flexible electronics. A transfer printing process that is made possible through the design and synthesis of adhesion-promoting hydrogels as target substrates is reported. This fabrication technique may advance ultracompliant electronics by melding microfabricated structures with swollen hydrogel substrates.}, volume = {27}, number = {22}, pages = {3398--3404}, month = apr, year = {2015}, slug = {wu2015transfer}, author = {Wu, Haosheng and Sariola, Veikko and Zhu, Congcong and Zhao, Jingsi and Sitti, Metin and Bettinger, Christopher J}, month_numeric = {4} }