High-Throughput and Hybrid Printing of Multifunctional Devices for Energy Harvesting and Multimodal Sensing

We report versatile high-throughput and hybrid additive manufacturing methods to manufacture and transform a broad range of emerging nanoscale building blocks into advanced optoelectronic, thermoelectric, and sensing systems in a highly scalable and autonomous manner. I will first present an aerosol based high-throughput combinatorial printing (HTCP) method capable of fabricating materials with compositional gradients with microscale spatial resolution. We demonstrate a variety of high-throughput combinatorial printing strategies and applications in developing high performance thermoelectric materials for energy harvesting, and super stretchable and strain insensitive bioelectronics.
I will also present a multi-materials multi-scale hybrid printing method that enables seamless integration of a broad range of structural and functional materials into multimodal biophysical and biochemical sensor systems for health monitoring. The ability to combine the top-down design freedom of additive manufacturing with bottom-up control over the local material compositions promises compositionally complex materials and devices inaccessible via conventional manufacturing approaches.