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...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2017-05-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15255 |
| Summary: | 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 even after the external field is turned off. |
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| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |