{"id":11633,"date":"2013-11-09T15:22:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T21:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11633"},"modified":"2013-11-09T15:25:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T21:25:34","slug":"georgia-tech-develops-inkjet-based-circuits-at-fraction-of-time-and-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11633","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Tech develops inkjet-based circuits at fraction of time and cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Recent advances in chemically bonding metal particles allowed the researchers to use silver nanoparticle ink to print the circuits and avoid thermal bonding, or sintering, a time-consuming and potentially damaging technique due to the heat. Printing the circuits on resin-coated paper, PET film and glossy photo paper worked best. Researchers also made a list of materials to avoid, such as canvas cloths and magnet sheets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2013-11-georgia-tech-inkjet-based-circuits-fraction.html\">Georgia Tech develops inkjet-based circuits at fraction of time and cost<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/topic\/datacenter\/ink-jet-printing-custom-designed-micro-circuits\/\">Ink-Jet Printing Custom-Designed Micro Circuits<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Initial reports of the technique, which the team demonstrated at a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubicomp.org\/ubicomp2013\/\" target=\"_blank\"> meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery in Zurich Sept. 10,<\/a> described the result as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22029374.500-print-a-working-paper-computer-on-an-80-inkjet.html\">\u201cpaper computer,\u201d<\/a> though the best researchers could do was print a WiFi antenna, circuits for an LED and a 3D-printed flashlight. They also produced circuits containing microprocessors and memory-chip connectors that could potentially become components of an actual device, but the printing, ink and materials are still far too basic to allow that, according to<a href=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/topic\/datacenter\/3d-printing-terminator-arm-yes-datacenter-circuit-boards-no\/\"> Matt Johnson of conductive-ink manufacturer Bare Conductive, <\/a>who was quoted in a <em>New Scientist<\/em> story about the demonstration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent advances in chemically bonding metal particles allowed the researchers to use silver nanoparticle ink to print the circuits and avoid thermal bonding, or sintering, a time-consuming and potentially damaging technique due to the heat. Printing the circuits on resin-coated &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11633\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1226,100,631,1225],"class_list":["post-11633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-inkjet-printing","tag-interesting-research","tag-material-science","tag-prototypes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11636,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11633\/revisions\/11636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}