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Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A

2006

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Piezoresistive Sensors On Textiles By Inkjet Printing And Electroless Plating, Amit Sawhney, Animesh Agrawal, Prabir Patra, Paul Calvert Jan 2006

Piezoresistive Sensors On Textiles By Inkjet Printing And Electroless Plating, Amit Sawhney, Animesh Agrawal, Prabir Patra, Paul Calvert

Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A

We have printed arrays of strain sensors on textiles by inkjet printing of conducting lines and piezoresistive polymer (PEDOT) in order to provide detailed information about the response of a fabric in use. Conducting polymer has been printed onto polyamide and cellulose woven fabrics to form sensors using a modified HP inkjet print-head and X-Y linear positioning table. Good penetration and attachment is found on mercerized cotton but not on polyamide. Silver nitrate lines have been printed onto polyamide and converted to silver connectors by electroless plating. We observed that resistance of silver lines ranged from 0.7-1.5Ω/cm whereas for the …


Differentiation Of Bone Marrow Stem Cells On Inkjet Printed Silk Lines, Skander Limem, Paul Calvert, Hyeon Joo Kim, David L. Kaplan Jan 2006

Differentiation Of Bone Marrow Stem Cells On Inkjet Printed Silk Lines, Skander Limem, Paul Calvert, Hyeon Joo Kim, David L. Kaplan

Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A

Water based silk solutions were successfully inkjet printed for the first time into patterns of parallel lines onto vinyl plastic substrates. Human bone marrow stromal cells (hMSCs) were seeded on the silk printed patterns and cultured in the presence of 100 ng/ml of bone morphogenic protein (BMP-2). After one week of culture cell growth and attachment showed site specificity on the silk printed lines. Both alkaline phosphatase activity and cell morphology indicated hBMSCs differentiation into osteogenic cells along the silk printed lines. After 4 week of culture, the cellular bridging of adjacent silk printed lines took place for all interline …