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Inkjet Printing of Aqueous Silver Inks on Water-Soluble Fabrics for Transient Electronics Applications
(AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2024) Gozutok-Onses, Zehra; Kiremitler, N. Burak; Ozbasaran, Aleyna; Huang, Xian; Onses, Mustafa Serdar; Usta, Hakan; 0000-0002-0618-1979; AGÜ, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Malzeme Bilimi ve Nanoteknoloji Mühendisliği Bölümü; Gozutok-Onses, Zehra; Usta, Hakan
There is an urgent need to develop practical routes for manufacturing transient electronic devices to tackle the emerging issue of electronic waste and enable next-generation devices. This study reports additive patterning of conductive layers on industrially available water-soluble nonwoven fabrics composed of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA). Aqueous inks composed of reactive silver precursors can be practically patterned over water-soluble fabrics by inkjet printing. The efficient deposition of materials with droplet volumes on the order of picoliters ensures the generation of conductive patterns on a water-soluble fabric using a solution-processable fabrication with aqueous inks. The fabrication of conductive electrodes and transience behavior are studied on PVA fabrics with two different degrees of hydrolysis, providing tunability in the temperature-dependent degradation of the substrate. The application of the printed conductive pads is demonstrated in resistive heaters. The temperature of the fabric can exceed 100 degrees C in less than 15 s at a safe voltage of 3 V. The heater exhibits stable operation under cyclic heating and cooling. The presented approach presents key opportunities in additive patterning of aqueous solutions and colloidal dispersions over water-soluble substrates for transient device applications.