Jetting behavior of polymer solutions in drop-on-demand inkjet printing

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1109-1127

  Hoath, Stephen D ^a   Harlen, Oliver G ^b   Hutchings, Ian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dilute polymer solutions; Experiments; Extension; Jetting; Modeling; Viscoelastic

Indexed keywords

DIETHYL PHTHALATE; DILUTE POLYMER SOLUTIONS; DROP-ON-DEMAND; DROP-ON-DEMAND PRINTING; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXTENSION; JETTING; LINEAR POLYMERS; MONODISPERSE POLYSTYRENE; NEWTONIANS; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER CONCENTRATIONS; POLYMER MOLECULE; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; SCALING PREDICTION; SOLVENT QUALITY; VISCOELASTIC; WEISSENBERG NUMBER;

DROPS; EXPERIMENTS; MODELS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYSTYRENES;

PRINTING;

EID: 84864362536     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.4724331     Document Type: Article

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