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Drop-on-demand metal jetting of pure copper: On the interaction of molten metal with ceramic and metallic substrates (2024)
Journal Article
Gilani, N., Aboulkhair, N. T., Simonelli, M., East, M., & Hague, R. J. (2024). Drop-on-demand metal jetting of pure copper: On the interaction of molten metal with ceramic and metallic substrates. Materials and Design, 240, Article 112834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2024.112834

Copper, renowned for its exceptional electrical and thermal conductivity at a low cost, holds great promise in electronic applications. While additive manufacturing of copper has attracted interest, the exploration of applying Drop-on-demand Metal Je... Read More about Drop-on-demand metal jetting of pure copper: On the interaction of molten metal with ceramic and metallic substrates.

Off the Grid: a new strategy for material-jet 3D printing with enhanced sub-droplet resolution (2023)
Journal Article
Nelson-Dummett, O., Rivers, G., Gilani, N., Simonelli, M., Tuck, C. J., Wildman, R. D., …Turyanska, L. (2024). Off the Grid: a new strategy for material-jet 3D printing with enhanced sub-droplet resolution. Additive Manufacturing Letters, 8, Article 100185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addlet.2023.100185

Drop-on-Demand additive manufacturing could offer a facile solution for scalable on-site manufacturing. With an increasing number of functional materials available for this technology, there are growing opportunities for applications, such as electro... Read More about Off the Grid: a new strategy for material-jet 3D printing with enhanced sub-droplet resolution.

Material Jetting (2023)
Book Chapter
Gilani, N., Foerster, A., & Aboulkhair, N. T. (2023). Material Jetting. In E. Pei, A. Bernard, D. Gu, C. Klahn, M. Monzón, M. Petersen, & T. Sun (Eds.), Springer Handbook of Additive Manufacturing (371-387). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20752-5_23

Material jetting is a process whereby a 3D structure can be manufactured using either a continuous jet or drop-on-demand jet. Material is transformed into a liquid state and actuated for a stream of material or droplets to be generated and ejected th... Read More about Material Jetting.

Stable large area drop-on-demand deposition of a conductive polymer ink for 3D-printed electronics, enabled by bio-renewable co-solvents (2023)
Journal Article
Rivers, G., Austin, J. S., He, Y., Thompson, A., Gilani, N., Roberts, N., …Turyanska, L. (2023). Stable large area drop-on-demand deposition of a conductive polymer ink for 3D-printed electronics, enabled by bio-renewable co-solvents. Additive Manufacturing, 66, Article 103452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2023.103452

Development of conductive polymer ink formulations with reliable jetting stability and physical properties could offer sustainable routes for scaling-up the 3D-printing of electronics. We report a new poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulp... Read More about Stable large area drop-on-demand deposition of a conductive polymer ink for 3D-printed electronics, enabled by bio-renewable co-solvents.

Additive manufacturing processes for metals (2023)
Book Chapter
Aboulkhair, N. T., Bosio, F., Gilani, N., Phutela, C., Hague, R. J., & Tuck, C. J. (2023). Additive manufacturing processes for metals. In Quality Analysis of Additively Manufactured Metals: Simulation Approaches, Processes, and Microstructure Properties (201-258). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-88664-2.00016-6

Additive manufacturing (AM) processes are a family of net-shaped manufacturing systems that are widely being used and adopted for their distinctive characteristics. Recently, AM processes have positioned themselves to be worthy of playing a role in r... Read More about Additive manufacturing processes for metals.

From impact to solidification in drop-on-demand metal additive manufacturing using MetalJet (2022)
Journal Article
Gilani, N., Aboulkhair, N. T., Simonelli, M., East, M., Ashcroft, I. A., & Hague, R. J. (2022). From impact to solidification in drop-on-demand metal additive manufacturing using MetalJet. Additive Manufacturing, 55, Article 102827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2022.102827

Drop-on-demand metal jetting is a promising additive manufacturing (AM) technology that is gaining interest due to its capability to directly print complex single and multi-material components at high resolutions. It also has key advantages over othe... Read More about From impact to solidification in drop-on-demand metal additive manufacturing using MetalJet.

Insights into drop-on-demand metal additive manufacturing through an integrated experimental and computational study (2021)
Journal Article
Gilani, N., Aboulkhair, N. T., Simonelli, M., East, M., Ashcroft, I., & Hague, R. J. (2021). Insights into drop-on-demand metal additive manufacturing through an integrated experimental and computational study. Additive Manufacturing, 48(Part B), Article 102402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2021.102402

Drop-on-demand metal jetting is a recent additive manufacturing technology opening new opportunities for the fabrication of complex single and multi-metal components. MetalJet, the Océ developed technique used in this study, has the capacity to produ... Read More about Insights into drop-on-demand metal additive manufacturing through an integrated experimental and computational study.