TY - JOUR
T1 - Liquid transfer in printing processes
T2 - Liquid bridges with moving contact lines
AU - Kumar, Satish
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - High-speed printing processes are a leading technology for the large-scale manufacture of a new generation of nanoscale and microscale devices. Central to all printing processes is the transfer of liquid from one surface to another, a seemingly simple operation that is still not well understood. A useful idealization of liquid transfer is a liquid bridge with moving contact lines being deformed between two separating surfaces. The fluid mechanics of such bridges are relevant not only to printing, but also to other important applications, such as adhesion, tribology, biology, oil recovery, and microfluidics.
AB - High-speed printing processes are a leading technology for the large-scale manufacture of a new generation of nanoscale and microscale devices. Central to all printing processes is the transfer of liquid from one surface to another, a seemingly simple operation that is still not well understood. A useful idealization of liquid transfer is a liquid bridge with moving contact lines being deformed between two separating surfaces. The fluid mechanics of such bridges are relevant not only to printing, but also to other important applications, such as adhesion, tribology, biology, oil recovery, and microfluidics.
KW - Dynamic wetting
KW - manufacturing
KW - materials processing
KW - printed electronics
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U2 - 10.1146/annurev-fluid-010814-014620
DO - 10.1146/annurev-fluid-010814-014620
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84910681547
SN - 0066-4189
VL - 47
SP - 67
EP - 94
JO - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
JF - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
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