Transfer Printing Technologies and Applications Materials Today Series

Transfer Printing Technologies and Applications is a complete guide to transfer printing techniques and their cutting-edge applications. Sections in the book explore the fundamentals behind these technologies, along with state-of-the-art applications enabled by transfer printing techniques, including areas such as flexible sensors, flexible transistors, wearable devices, thin film-based energy systems, flexible displays, microLED-based displays, metal films, and more. A concluding chapter addresses current challenges and future opportunities in this innovative field. This book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students across nanotechnology, materials science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry, and biomedicine, as well as scientists, engineers, R&D professionals, and more.

Part I Transfer printing methods and fundamentals
1. Mechanics, structure, and materials science of transfer printing
2. Transfer printing by kinetic control of adhesion
3. Thermal release tape-enabled transfer printing techniques
4. Laser-driven noncontact transfer printing technique
5. Magnetic-assisted transfer printing techniques
6. Transfer printing techniques enabled by advanced materials
7. Water-assisted transfer printing techniques
8. Novel nontraditional transfer printing technologies

Part II State-of-the-art applications enabled by transfer printing
9. Microtransfer printing techniques for optical applications
10. Flexible sensors enabled by transfer printing techniques
11. Construction of flexible transistors enabled by transfer printing
12. Transfer printed devices for biomedical applications
13. Laser-driven transfer printing techniques for micro-LED display
14. Energy systems fabricated by transfer printing technologies
15. Transfer printing of metal films
16. Stacking of two-dimensional materials
17. 2D materials-based electronics enabled by transfer printing technologies
18. Outlooks

Changhong Cao is the Director of the McGill Nano Factory, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at McGill University, in Quebec, Canada. His research activities focus on the development of printing technologies (2D and 3D), mechano-electrochemical studies of energy storage materials, as well as synthesis, assembly, and multi-scale characterizations of low-dimensional materials. Dr. Cao was a recipient of the Microsystem and Nanoengineering Outstanding Young Researcher Award (2020) and has authored publications in premium journals such as Science Advances, Nano Letters, and ACS Nano.

Dr. Sun is a Professor at the University of Toronto. He is a Tier I Canada Research Chair and the Director of Robotic Institute, University of Toronto. His Advanced Micro and Nanosystems Laboratory specializes in developing innovative robotic and AI technologies for reproductive medicine. He was elected Fellow of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), NAI (US National Academy of Inventors), and AIMBE (American Institute of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering) for his work on micro/nano devices, robotic systems and AI technologies.