Printing pure and multimaterial structures and devices in a single process is still in its infancy. Current electronic printing are ink-based technologies that suffer from ink contaminations, complex ink formulation, and limited sources of printing ink making it difficult to print pure and multimaterial structures and devices. Here, for the first time, we report a novel dry multimaterial 3D printing technology which allows printing multiple materials such as barium titanate (BTO), titanium dioxide (TiO2), tin oxide (SnO), zinc oxide (ZnO), aluminum oxide (Al2O3) and silver (Ag) on flexible substrates in a single step process. Flexible ZnO-based photodetectors and flexible electronics are printed and tested to demonstrate the huge impact of this technology on the future of printed electronics, sensors, and energy devices.
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