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Rayleigh instability assisted satellite droplets elimination in inkjet printing Qiang Yang, Huizeng Li, Mingzhu Li, Yanan Li, Shuoran Chen, Bin Bao, and Yanlin Song ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b11356 • Publication Date (Web): 07 Nov 2017 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on November 7, 2017
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Rayleigh instability assisted satellite droplets elimination in inkjet printing Qiang Yang,1 Huizeng Li,1,2 Mingzhu Li,1 Yanan Li,1,2 Shuoran Chen,3 Bin Bao1 and Yanlin Song1*
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Key Laboratory of Green Printing, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
(ICCAS), Beijing Engineering Research Center of Nanomaterials for Green Printing Technology, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Beijing 100190, P. R. China 2
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
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Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Environmental Functional Materials, Research Center for Green
Printing Nanophotonic Materials, Institute of Chemistry, Biology and Materials Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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ABSTRACT Elimination of satellite droplets in inkjet printing has long been desired for high resolution and precision printing of functional materials and tissues. Generally, the strategy to suppress satellite droplets is to control ink properties such as viscosity or surface tension, to assist ink filaments in retracting into one drop. However, this strategy brings new restrictions to the ink, such as ink viscosity, surface tension and concentration. Here we report an alternative strategy that the satellite droplets are eliminated by enhancing Rayleigh instability of filament at the break point to accelerate pinch-off of the droplet from the nozzle. A superhydrophobic and ultra-low adhesive nozzle with cone morphology exhibits the capability to eliminate satellite droplets by cutting the ink filament at breakup point effectively. As a result, the nozzles with different sizes (10 ~ 80 µm) are able to print more inks (1
