A comprehensive overview of the technique and its use in fabricating functional materials for health and energy applications.

Reactive inkjet printing uses an inkjet printer to dispense one or more reactants onto a substrate to generate a physical or chemical reaction to form a product in situ. Thus, unlike traditional inkjet printing, the printed film chemistry differs to that of the initial ink droplets. The appeal of reactive inkjet printing as a chemical synthesis tool is linked to its ability to produce droplets whose size is both controllable and predictable, which means that the individual droplets can be thought of as building blocks where droplets can be added to the substrate in a high precision format to give good control and predictability over the chemical reaction. The book starts by introducing the concept of using reactive inkjet printing as a building block for making materials. Aspects such as the behaviour of printed droplets on substrate and their mixing is discussed in the first chapters. The following chapters then discuss different applications of the technique in areas including additive manufacturing and silk production, production of materials used in solar cells, printed electronics, dentistry and tissue engineering. Edited by two leading experts, Reactive Inkjet Printing: A Chemical Synthesis Tool provides a comprehensive overview of this technique and its use in fabricating functional materials for health and energy applications. The book will appeal to advanced level students in materials science.

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2013 in the subject Biology - Genetics / Gene Technology, grade: 1,0, University of Freiburg (Institut für Mikrosystemtechnik), course: Mikrosystemtechnik, language: English, abstract: A process for the fabrication of DNA microarrays by copying a next-generation sequencing chip is presented in this thesis. DNA molecules of a DNA library are mixed with a biochemical reaction mix and loaded into hundreds of thousands wells of the commercial sequencing chip PicoTiterPlate (PTP, Roche). The DNA randomly distributes onto the wells so that statistically one well contains one single DNA molecule. All wells of the PTP are closed with a microscope slide and the DNA is amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Each single PCR product is attached as a DNA cluster in the PTP and on the corresponding position on the slide since both surfaces have been coated with PCR primers. The sequence of each DNA cluster can be obtained by a subsequent sequencing reaction in the PTP. This also reveals the sequences of each DNA cluster on the slide thus allowing the slide to be used as a standard DNA microarray.