Laser printing with nanoparticles is opening doors to flexible electronics.

The unique device and method for printing metal from nanoparticles, which enable the combination of sintered and nanoparticle structures within a single product, were developed at the Faculty of Science at the University of South Bohemia, specifically the Department of Physics (Laboratory of Nanomaterials Physics led by Jiří Kratochvíl), the Department of Chemistry (Laboratory of Single Molecule Spectroscopy led by Tomáš Fessl), in collaboration with the Czech Academy of Sciences (Electron Microscopy Laboratory led by Marie Vancová). The technology was selected as a finalist in the national Transfera competition, patented, and published in the prestigious scientific journal Nano Letters by the American Chemical Society, with the editorial team selecting it for the front cover of the journal issue (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c03131).

Mashchenko O., Fessl T., Dyčka F., Bílý T., Vancová M., Kaftan D., Al-Muhkhrabi Y., Patlejchová T., Kratochvíl J. 2024: Laser metal printing from nanoparticles prepared by a gas aggregation source. Nano Letters 44: 14146–14152. [IF = 9.6]. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c03131