Professor CHRISTOPHER TUCK's Outputs (116)

Modelling and numerical optimisation of refractive surface patterns for transmissive solar sails (2025)
Journal Article
Thompson, S. M., Tuck, C., Pushparaj, N., & Cappelletti, C. (2025). Modelling and numerical optimisation of refractive surface patterns for transmissive solar sails. Acta Astronautica, 233, 99-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2025.03.039

Transmissive solar sail designs have been proposed with performance and utility benefits over traditional solar sails, particularly in low Earth orbit. The functional element of these new sails is their refractive or diffractive surface pattern. This... Read More about Modelling and numerical optimisation of refractive surface patterns for transmissive solar sails.

Inkjet Printing of Heterostructures: Investigation and Strategies for Control of Interfaces (2025)
Journal Article
Austin, J. S., Zhou, Y., Rivers, G., Gilani, N., Wang, F., Tuck, C. J., Gilmore, I. S., Hague, R. J., Trindade, G. F., & Turyanska, L. (2025). Inkjet Printing of Heterostructures: Investigation and Strategies for Control of Interfaces. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 17(11), 17230-17237. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c21170

Development of printed electronics requires understanding and control of the interfaces in heterostructure devices. However, investigation of the interfaces between dissimilar materials to achieve control of intermixing presents challenges. Here, we... Read More about Inkjet Printing of Heterostructures: Investigation and Strategies for Control of Interfaces.

On‐Demand Sintering of Gold Nanoparticles via Controlled Removal of o‐Nitrobenzyl Thiol Ligands Under Record‐Low Power for Conductive Patterns (2025)
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Im, J., Heaton, C., Putri, N. R. E., Liu, C., Usuba, J., Butler, K., Fay, M., Han, G. G. D., Hooshmand, H., Thompson, A., Wildman, R., Hague, R., Turyanska, L., & Tuck, C. (2025). On‐Demand Sintering of Gold Nanoparticles via Controlled Removal of o‐Nitrobenzyl Thiol Ligands Under Record‐Low Power for Conductive Patterns. Advanced Science, 12(12), Article 2415496. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202415496

Metal nanoparticles-based nanoinks have shown potential for fabricating metallic components essential to the realization of innovative 3D-printed electronic devices. However, fabricating metallic patterns on flexible, heat-sensitive substrates remain... Read More about On‐Demand Sintering of Gold Nanoparticles via Controlled Removal of o‐Nitrobenzyl Thiol Ligands Under Record‐Low Power for Conductive Patterns.

Inkjet Printed Multifunctional Graphene Sensors for Flexible and Wearable Electronics (2024)
Journal Article
Wang, F., Heaton, C., Cottam, N., Austin, J., Im, J., Fromhold, T. M., Wildman, R. D., Hague, R. J. M., Tuck, C., Makarovsky, O., & Turyanska, L. (in press). Inkjet Printed Multifunctional Graphene Sensors for Flexible and Wearable Electronics. Advanced Electronic Materials, https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202400689

The exceptional electrical properties of graphene with high sensitivity to external stimuli make it an ideal candidate for advanced sensing technologies. Inkjet printing of graphene (iGr) can provide a versatile platform for multifunctional sensor ma... Read More about Inkjet Printed Multifunctional Graphene Sensors for Flexible and Wearable Electronics.

Drop-on-demand 3D printing of programable magnetic composites for soft robotics (2024)
Journal Article
Bastola, A., Parry, L., Worsley, R., Ahmed, N., Lester, E., Hague, R., & Tuck, C. (2024). Drop-on-demand 3D printing of programable magnetic composites for soft robotics. Additive Manufacturing Letters, 11, Article 100250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addlet.2024.100250

Soft robotics have become increasingly popular as a versatile alternative to traditional robotics. Magnetic composite materials, which respond to external magnetic fields, have attracted significant interest in this field due to their programmable tw... Read More about Drop-on-demand 3D printing of programable magnetic composites for soft robotics.

Additive manufacturing of functionalised atomic vapour cells for next-generation quantum technologies (2024)
Journal Article
Wang, F., Cooper, N., He, Y., Hopton, B., Johnson, D., Zhao, P., Tuck, C. J., Hague, R., Fromhold, T. M., Wildman, R. D., Turyanska, L., & Hackermüller, L. (2025). Additive manufacturing of functionalised atomic vapour cells for next-generation quantum technologies. Quantum Science and Technology, 10(1), Article 015019. https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/ad8678

Atomic vapour cells are an indispensable tool for quantum technologies (QT), but potential improvements are limited by the capacities of conventional manufacturing techniques. Using an additive manufacturing (AM) technique—vat polymerisation by digit... Read More about Additive manufacturing of functionalised atomic vapour cells for next-generation quantum technologies.

Developing colloidal nanoparticles for inkjet printing of devices with optical properties tuneable from the UV to the NIR (2024)
Journal Article
Austin, J. S., Xiao, W., Wang, F., Cottam, N. D., Rivers, G., Ward, E. B., Luan, W., Tuck, C. J., Hague, R., Makarovsky, O., Turyanska, L., & James, T. S. (2024). Developing colloidal nanoparticles for inkjet printing of devices with optical properties tuneable from the UV to the NIR. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 12(29), 10992-11000. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TC01917B

Colloidal low-dimensional photo-sensitive nanomaterials have attracted significant interest for optoelectronic device applications where inkjet printing offers a high accuracy and low waste route for their deposition on silicon-based, as well as flex... Read More about Developing colloidal nanoparticles for inkjet printing of devices with optical properties tuneable from the UV to the NIR.

Enabling High-fidelity Personalized Pharmaceutical Tablets through Multimaterial Inkjet 3D Printing with a Water-soluble Excipient (2024)
Journal Article
Rivers, G., Lion, A., Rofiqoh Eviana Putri, N., Rance, G., Moloney, C., Taresco, V., Crucitti, V. C., Constantin, H., Inê Evangelista Barreiros, M., Cantu, L. R., Tuck, C., Rose, F. R. A. J., Hague, R. J. M., Roberts, C. J., Turyanska, L., Wildman, R. D., & He, Y. (2024). Enabling High-fidelity Personalized Pharmaceutical Tablets through Multimaterial Inkjet 3D Printing with a Water-soluble Excipient. Materials Today Advances, 22, Article 100493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtadv.2024.100493

Additive manufacturing offers manufacture of personalised pharmaceutical tablets through design freedoms and material deposition control at an individual voxel level. This control goes beyond geometry and materials choices: inkjet based 3D printing e... Read More about Enabling High-fidelity Personalized Pharmaceutical Tablets through Multimaterial Inkjet 3D Printing with a Water-soluble Excipient.

Enabling high-fidelity personalised pharmaceutical tablets through multimaterial inkjet 3D printing with a water-soluble excipient (2024)
Journal Article
Rivers, G., Lion, A., Putri, N. R. E., Rance, G. A., Moloney, C., Taresco, V., Crucitti, V. C., Constantin, H., Evangelista Barreiros, M. I., Cantu, L. R., Tuck, C. J., Rose, F. R., Hague, R. J., Roberts, C. J., Turyanska, L., Wildman, R. D., & He, Y. (2024). Enabling high-fidelity personalised pharmaceutical tablets through multimaterial inkjet 3D printing with a water-soluble excipient. Materials Today Advances, 22, Article 100493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtadv.2024.100493

Additive manufacturing offers manufacture of personalised pharmaceutical tablets through design freedoms and material deposition control at an individual voxel level. This control goes beyond geometry and materials choices: inkjet based 3D printing e... Read More about Enabling high-fidelity personalised pharmaceutical tablets through multimaterial inkjet 3D printing with a water-soluble excipient.

Additive Manufacturing of Electrically Conductive Multi-Layered Nanocopper in an Air Environment (2024)
Journal Article
Pervan, D., Bastola, A., Worsley, R., Wildman, R., Hague, R., Lester, E., & Tuck, C. (2024). Additive Manufacturing of Electrically Conductive Multi-Layered Nanocopper in an Air Environment. Nanomaterials, 14(9), Article 753. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14090753

The additive manufacturing (AM) of functional copper (Cu) parts is a major goal for many industries, from aerospace to automotive to electronics, because Cu has a high thermal and electrical conductivity as well as being ~10× cheaper than silver. Pre... Read More about Additive Manufacturing of Electrically Conductive Multi-Layered Nanocopper in an Air Environment.

A facile one step route that introduces functionality to polymer powders for laser sintering (2024)
Journal Article
Krumins, E., Crawford, L. A., Rogers, D. M., Machado, F., Taresco, V., East, M., Irving, S. H., Fowler, H. R., Jiang, L., Starr, N., Parmenter, C. D., Kortsen, K., Cuzzucoli Crucitti, V., Avery, S. V., Tuck, C. J., & Howdle, S. M. (2024). A facile one step route that introduces functionality to polymer powders for laser sintering. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 3137. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47376-4

Laser Sintering (LS) is a type of Additive Manufacturing (AM) exploiting laser processing of polymeric particles to produce 3D objects. Because of its ease of processability and thermo-physical properties, polyamide-12 (PA-12) represents ~95% of the... Read More about A facile one step route that introduces functionality to polymer powders for laser sintering.

Quantum Nature of Charge Transport in Inkjet-Printed Graphene Revealed in High Magnetic Fields up to 60T (2024)
Journal Article
Cottam, N. D., Wang, F., Austin, J. S., Tuck, C. J., Hague, R., Fromhold, M., Escoffier, W., Goiran, M., Pierre, M., Makarovsky, O., & Turyanska, L. (2024). Quantum Nature of Charge Transport in Inkjet-Printed Graphene Revealed in High Magnetic Fields up to 60T. Small, 20(30), Article 2311416. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202311416

Inkjet‐printing of graphene, iGr, provides an alternative route for the fabrication of highly conductive and flexible graphene films for use in devices. However, the contribution of quantum phenomena associated with 2D single layer graphene, SLG, to... Read More about Quantum Nature of Charge Transport in Inkjet-Printed Graphene Revealed in High Magnetic Fields up to 60T.

Formulation of functional materials for inkjet printing: A pathway towards fully 3D printed electronics (2023)
Journal Article
Bastola, A., He, Y., Im, J., Rivers, G., Wang, F., Worsley, R., Austin, J. S., Nelson-Dummett, O., Wildman, R. D., Hague, R., Tuck, C. J., & Turyanska, L. (2023). Formulation of functional materials for inkjet printing: A pathway towards fully 3D printed electronics. Materials Today Electronics, 6, Article 100058. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtelec.2023.100058

Inkjet printing offers a facile route for manufacturing the next generation of electronic devices, by combining the design freedom of additive manufacturing technologies with tuneable properties of functional materials and opportunities for their int... Read More about Formulation of functional materials for inkjet printing: A pathway towards fully 3D printed electronics.

New structure-performance relationships for surface-based lattice heat sinks (2023)
Journal Article
Padrão, D., Hancock, D., Paterson, J., Schoofs, F., Tuck, C., & Maskery, I. (2024). New structure-performance relationships for surface-based lattice heat sinks. Applied Thermal Engineering, 236(Part B), Article 121572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2023.121572

Heat sinks have manifold applications, from micro-electronics to nuclear fusion reactors. Their performance expectations will continue to increase in line with the power consumption and miniaturisation of technology. Additive manufacturing enables t... Read More about New structure-performance relationships for surface-based lattice heat sinks.

A Soluble ‘Ba(Ni-ett)’ (ett = 1,1,2,2-Ethenetetrathiolate) Derived Thermoelectric Material (2023)
Journal Article
Hu, Y., Rivers, G., Weir, M. P., Amabilino, D. B., Tuck, C. J., Wildman, R. D., Makarovsky, O., & Woodward, S. (2024). A Soluble ‘Ba(Ni-ett)’ (ett = 1,1,2,2-Ethenetetrathiolate) Derived Thermoelectric Material. Electronic Materials Letters, 20, 150-157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13391-023-00454-z

We describe the synthesis and characterisation of the first of a new class of soluble ladder oligomeric thermoelectric material based on previously unutilised ethene-1,1,2,2-tetrasulfonic acid. Reaction of Ba(OH)2 and propionic acid at a 1:1 stoichio... Read More about A Soluble ‘Ba(Ni-ett)’ (ett = 1,1,2,2-Ethenetetrathiolate) Derived Thermoelectric Material.

Additively Manufactured 3D Micro-bioelectrodes for Enhanced Bioelectrocatalytic Operation (2023)
Journal Article
Jodeiri, K., Foerster, A., Trindade, G. F., Im, J., Carballares, D., Fernández-Lafuente, R., Pita, M., De Lacey, A. L., Parmenter, C. D., & Tuck, C. (2023). Additively Manufactured 3D Micro-bioelectrodes for Enhanced Bioelectrocatalytic Operation. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 15(11), 14914–14924. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c20262

The drive toward miniaturization of enzyme-based bioelectronics established a need for three-dimensional (3D) microstructured electrodes, which are difficult to implement using conventional manufacturing processes. Additive manufacturing coupled with... Read More about Additively Manufactured 3D Micro-bioelectrodes for Enhanced Bioelectrocatalytic Operation.

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., Zhao, P., Tuck, C. J., Hague, R. J., Wildman, R. D., & 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.

Strategies for Integrating Metal Nanoparticles with Two-Photon Polymerization Process: Toward High Resolution Functional Additive Manufacturing (2023)
Journal Article
Im, J., Liu, Y., Hu, Q., Trindade, G. F., Parmenter, C., Fay, M., He, Y., Irvine, D. J., Tuck, C., Wildman, R. D., Hague, R., & Turyanska, L. (2023). Strategies for Integrating Metal Nanoparticles with Two-Photon Polymerization Process: Toward High Resolution Functional Additive Manufacturing. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(39), Article 2211920. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202211920

This study reports the successful fabrication of complex 3D metal nanoparticle–polymer nanocomposites using two-photon polymerization (2PP). Three complementary strategies are detailed: in situ formation of metal nanoparticles (MeNPs) through a singl... Read More about Strategies for Integrating Metal Nanoparticles with Two-Photon Polymerization Process: Toward High Resolution Functional Additive Manufacturing.

Photosensitisation of inkjet printed graphene with stable all-inorganic perovskite nanocrystals (2022)
Journal Article
Austin, J. S., Cottam, N. D., Zhang, C., Wang, F., Gosling, J. H., Nelson-Dummet, O., James, T. S., Beton, P. H., Trindade, G. F., Zhou, Y., Tuck, C. J., Hague, R., Makarovsky, O., & Turyanska, L. (2023). Photosensitisation of inkjet printed graphene with stable all-inorganic perovskite nanocrystals. Nanoscale, 15(5), 2134–2142. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2NR06429D

All-inorganic perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) with enhanced environmental stability are of particular interest for optoelectronic applications. Here we report on the formulation of CsPbX3 (X is Br or I) inks for inkjet deposition and utilise these NCs... Read More about Photosensitisation of inkjet printed graphene with stable all-inorganic perovskite nanocrystals.