Nano and printing

Nanotechnology is a very popular word in the new century. The development of nanotechnology will bring the world into the micro field, and it will surely cause a series of industrial revolutions.

What is nano? One nanometer is 1 nanometer (mμ), which is one billionth of a meter and is about the size of 10 atoms. What is nanotechnology? Simply put, nanotechnology is the scientific technology that uses a single atom or molecule to make matter, that is, the research and application of accurate observation, identification, and control of matter (the presence of species, quantity, and structural form) at a single atomic and molecular level. This provides a new technological basis for information science, life science, molecular biology, new materials science, and ecological sustainable development in the 21st century.

In the traditional printing industry, it can be predicted that nanotechnology will have a wide range of applications.
A plate of new material appears. When some special surface processing is adopted, two kinds of two-dimensional surfaces with different properties can be formed on the medium, and the surface area of ​​each surface, and the “interface” of the two-phase structure are nanometer sizes. When a piece of material has the same hydrophilicity and lipophilicity in nanometer size, it will have an ultra-hydrophilic and super-lipophilic interface. It can be imagined that the resolution of prints in the future will be higher.

Due to the development of printing plates, the demand for ink will inevitably increase accordingly. At present, a technology for producing an ultrafine metal material “nano-metal fine powder” using a DC arc plasma method has been realized. The development of nano-materials engineering from the fields of metals and semiconductors to a variety of organic fields is an inevitable trend. When the effective preparation method of the ultrafine material is established and the problem of stability that prevails in the organic material is solved, the performance of the ink must have a leap forward.

Nanotechnology will also be applied to the drive. Like tiny micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), microelectronics technology can place 1 million micromachines on a silicon wafer, each with an electronic control system. The Texas company in the US has used MEMS technology to develop chips for displaying video images. Millions of cars are equipped with a thin sensor-transmission device that releases the airbag immediately when it feels a shock. With this device installed on the press, pressure, speed, position, etc. can be precisely controlled.

The above are just some of the imaginable aspects, in fact, the application of nanotechnology in printing is far more than mentioned.

The development of nanotechnology will greatly change the traditional industries. It can be predicted that in the near future, nanotechnology will bring tremendous changes to the printing industry.