Formation of printable granular and colloidal chains through capillary effects and dielectrophoresis

Conductive colloidal chains are promising for electronics but difficult to synthesize outside of a liquid environment. Here, the authors use field-directed assembly and capillary effects to pull conductive particle chains out of a suspension, which remain held together by flexible liquid bridges eve...

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Main Authors: Zbigniew Rozynek, Ming Han, Filip Dutka, Piotr Garstecki, Arkadiusz Józefczak, Erik Luijten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15255