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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Printed Strain Gauge on 3D and Low-Melting Point Plastic Surface by Aerosol Jet Printing and Photonic Curing.

Michela Borghetti, Mauro Serpelloni, Emilio Sardini

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michela BorghettiDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy. michela.borghetti@unibs.it.ORCID 0000-0002-1641-1790
Mauro SerpelloniDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6497-5876
Emilio SardiniDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8629-7316
University of Brescia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Printing sensors and electronics directly on the objects is very attractive for producing smart devices, but it is still a challenge. Indeed, in some applications, the substrate that supports the printed electronics could be non-planar or the thermal curing of the functional inks could damage temperature-sensitive substrates such as plastics, fabric or paper. In this paper, we propose a new method for manufacturing silver-based strain sensors with arbitrary and custom geometries directly on plastic objects with curvilinear surfaces: (1) the silver lines are deposited by aerosol jet printing, which can print on non-planar or 3D surfaces; (2) photonic sintering quickly cures the deposited layer, avoiding the overheating of the substrate. To validate the manufacturing process, we printed strain gauges with conventional geometry on polyvinyl chloride (PVC) conduits. The entire manufacturing process, included sensor wiring and optional encapsulation, is performed at room temperature, compatible with the plastic surface. At the end of the process, the measured thickness of the printed sensor was 8.72 μm on average, the volume resistivity was evaluated 40 μΩ∙cm, and the thermal coefficient resistance was measured 0.150 %/°C. The average resistance was (71 ± 7) Ω and the gauge factor was found to be 2.42 on average.

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aerosol jet printednon-planar surfacesphotonic sinteringplasticsprinted electronicssilver inkstrain gaugestemperature sensitive

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PMID31569363
PMCPMC6806140
OpenAlexW2977157256

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