Abstract
Inkjet printing technology has become prevalent not only for office document printing, but has also gained a lot of attention in academic research and industrial manufacturing. Inkjet printers with the ability to reproducibly deposit known and small volumes of liquids onto specific user selectable spots on a large variety of substrates in a non-contact manner can be regarded as accurate tools for liquid dispensing. Those are highly important in the fields of chemistry, biology, or life sciences.
After providing a general introduction into the basic principles of inkjet printing, separated sections are devoted to the inkjet deposition of nucleic acids and of proteins. It is shown that inkjet printing technology can handle all relevant biomolecules, provided that ink formulations meet certain requirements defined by the selected droplet ejection system. Balancing inkjet-printability and preservation of biomolecule functionality during the printing process is essential. But the advantages achieved by inkjet printing of biomolecules compared to other deposition techniques have resulted in the development and fabrication of manifold analytical devices utilizing the strengths of biomolecular recognition.
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Henares, T., Yamada, K., Suzuki, K., Citterio, D. (2015). Inkjet Printing of Biomolecules for Biorecognition. In: Rodríguez-Hernández, J., Cortajarena, A. (eds) Design of Polymeric Platforms for Selective Biorecognition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17061-9_8
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