Printing is becoming a key enabling technology in the new era of 4th industrial revolution.
This course provides a comprehensive understanding on printing technology from materials to processes with a focus on inkjet process. It also introduces new applications of printing including 3D prototyping, flexible printed electronics and biofabrication for regenerative medicine. For the last two weeks, students will learn how to design and fabricate 3D objects using a 3D printer. This course is suitable for senior undergraduates and graduate students, and no prior technical knowledge needed.

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- Attendance: 10%
- Midterm exam: 30%
- Final exam:30%
- Class Participation and Presentation: 20%
- Lab project: 10%

- Fundamentals of Inkjet Printing: The Science of Inkjet and Droplets, Wiley, 2015
- Handbook of Industrial Inkjet Printing, Wiley, 2017
- Organic Flexible Electronics: Fundamentals, Devices, and Applications, Wiley, 2020
- Principles of Tissue Engineering, 5th Edition, Elsevier, 2020

Week 1: Overview of printing technologies
Week 2: Printing systems
Week 3: Printhead technologies
Week 4-5: Ink drop formation and waveform design, High speed imaging for printing
Week 6: Ink rheology and fluid characterization
Week 7: Simulation of viscoelastic fluid models with industrial data
Week 8: Mid-term examination
Week 9: Drop impact and spreading, Drop drying process
Week 10: Surface for printing
Week 11: Application I. Printed and flexible electronics
Week 12: Application II. 3D Bioprinting and biofabrication
Week 13: Application III. Additive manufacturing
Week 14: Lab - 3D design and printing
Week 15: Lab – printed electronics and bioprinting experiments
Week 16: Final examination

Lecture and Lab