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ReviewACS omega2021

Advances in Screen Printing of Conductive Nanomaterials for Stretchable Electronics.

Nathan Zavanelli, Woon-Hong Yeo

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Review in ACS omega, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Multiscale Manufacturing of Organic Electronic Materials.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
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  11. Flexible AgNature communications · 2025
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  12. Transparent and Transient Flexible Electronics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  13. Laser-Enabled Fabrication of Flexible Printed Electronics with Integrated Functional Devices.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Nathan ZavanelliGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Human-Centric Interfaces and Engineering at the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States.
Woon-Hong YeoGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Human-Centric Interfaces and Engineering at the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stretchable electronics have demonstrated tremendous potential in wearable healthcare, advanced diagnostics, soft robotics, and persistent human-machine interfaces. Still, their applicability is limited by a reliance on low-throughput, high-cost fabrication methods. Traditional MEMS/NEMS metallization and off-contact direct-printing methods are not suitable at scale. In contrast, screen printing is a high-throughput, mature printing method. The recent development of conductive nanomaterial inks that are intrinsically stretchable provides an exciting opportunity for scalable fabrication of stretchable electronics. The design of screen-printed inks is constrained by strict rheological requirements during printing, substrate-ink attraction, and nanomaterial properties that determine dispersibility and percolation threshold. Here, this review provides a concise overview of these key constraints and a recent attempt to meet them. We begin with a description of the fluid dynamics governing screen printing, deduce from these properties the optimal ink rheological properties, and then describe how nanomaterials, solvents, binders, and rheological agents are combined to produce high-performing inks. Although this review emphasizes conductive interconnections, these methods are highly applicable to sensing, insulating, photovoltaic, and semiconducting materials. Finally, we conclude with a discussion on the future opportunities and challenges in screen-printing stretchable electronics and their broader applicability.

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PMID33869914
PMCPMC8047672

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