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Comparison of jets from Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids induced by blister-actuated laser-induced forward transfer (BA-LIFT)

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Blister-actuated laser-induced forward transfer (BA-LIFT) is a high-resolution printing technique, where small droplets are ejected from a thin liquid layer onto a receiver substrate. Experiments with a high-speed camera imaging setup demonstrate novel regimes during the jet formation for the transfer of viscoelastic shear-thinning polymer solutions compared to Newtonian fluids. The ratio of the ink film thickness \(H_{\text {f}}\) to the blister height \(H_{\text {b}}\) is used as a dimensionless number \(H_{\text {f}}/H_{\text {b}}\) to classify different jet behaviors. We show that different \(H_{\text {f}}/H_{\text {b}}\) thresholds can be defined depending on the elasticity of the ink layer for the induced jets to result in breakup.

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We acknowledge support of the National Science Foundation (NSF) through a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center program through the Princeton Center for Complex Materials (DMR-1420541).

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    Emre Turkoz, Luc Deike & Craig B. Arnold

  2. Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

    Luc Deike

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Turkoz, E., Deike, L. & Arnold, C.B. Comparison of jets from Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids induced by blister-actuated laser-induced forward transfer (BA-LIFT). Appl. Phys. A 123, 652 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-017-1252-3

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