Viscosity and acoustic behavior of ceramic suspensions optimized for phase-change ink-jet printing

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 802-808

  Reis, Nuno ^a,c   Ainsley, Christopher ^a   Derby, Brian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FREQUENCY; CERAMIC POWDERS; CERAMIC SUSPENSIONS; PRINTING HEADS;

ACOUSTICS; OPTIMIZATION; PRINTING; SURFACE TENSION; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VISCOSITY;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

ACOUSTICS; CERAMICS; DISPERSIONS; INK JET PRINTING; OPTIMIZATION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 27644479057     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2005.00138.x     Document Type: Article

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