Publications by authors named "James R Deneault"

Optical microscopy images and confocal data for Aerosol Jet Printed (AJP) lines over a 16 hour print duration is provide in this dataset ("Mapping Drift in Morphology and Electrical Performance in Aerosol Jet Printing" [1]). Lines were uninterruptedly printed by AJP on a glass substrate using silver nanoparticle ink over a 16-hour time frame. The ink used for this experiment was a 0.

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In fabricating electronic components or devices via Aerosol Jet Printing (AJP) there are numerous options for commercially available Metal NanoParticle (MNP) inks. Regardless of the MNP ink selected, the electrical properties of the final product are not commensurate to those of the bulk metal due to the inherent porosity and impurity-infused composition that is characteristic of these heterogeneous feedstock. Hence, choosing the best MNP ink for a particular application can be difficult, even among those based on the same metal, as each ink formulation can yield different performance metrics depending on the specific formulation and the conditions under which it is processed.

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Shape-reprogramming in a polymer is demonstrated, where prescribed 3D geometric information can be encoded, decoded, erased, and re-encoded. In essence, the shape-reprogrammable polymer (SRP) acts as computer hardware that can be reformatted and reprogrammed repeatedly. Such SRPs have the potential to be repurposed directly without going through material disposal and recycling.

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A common complication in fabricating arrays of TiO(2) nanotubes is that they agglomerate into tightly packed bundles during the inevitable solvent evaporation step. This problem is particularly acute for template-fabricated TiO(2) nanotubes, as the geometric tunability of this technique enables relatively large inter-pore spacings or, from another perspective, more space for lateral displacement. Our work showed that agglomeration results from the surface tension forces that are present as the ambient solvent is evaporated from the nanotube film.

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