Dr Patrick J Smith

BSc, PhD

Dr Patrick Smith

Lecturer

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Kroto Research Institute
Broad Lane
Sheffield
S3 7HQ
UK

Telephone: +44(0)114 222 7738
Fax: +44(0)114 222 7890

email : patrick.smith@sheffield.ac.uk

Profile

Dr Patrick J Smith was awarded a first class BSc degree in Applied Chemistry from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1997, which he studied for part-time whilst working as Technical Officer for Ilford Ltd.

In 2002, he was awarded his PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge for his research into increasing the critical current density of bulk high-temperature superconductors.

He then had a number of post-doc positions working first with Brian Derby in Manchester (2002 – 2005), Ulrich Schubert in Eindhoven (2005 – 2007) and Jan Korvink (2007 – 2010).

In July 2010, he was appointed to the position of Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield.

Areas of Research

Dr Smith's current research areas are additive manufacture, aerosol deposition, rapid prototyping, reactive inkjet printing, metal-organic decomposition inks and droplet behaviour on the substrate.

He is particularly interested in solution-based inks, particularly hybrid-containing inks and precursor inks for hybrids, and discovering cost-effective ways to make photovoltaic and electronic devices.

Research Projects (Funded)

As Principle Investigator:

"Inkjet printed sensors", Pennine Water Group (£6000)
"Security printing on copper cables", KTA R&D Collaborative Award (£33,625)
"Reactive inkjet printing and controlled crystallisation", Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (£121,459)

As Co-Investigator:

"Inkjet-assisted creation of self-healing layers between composite plies", European Office of Aerospace Research and Development ($50,000) PI: Prof. Alma Hodzic

Teaching

Dr Smith teaches the following course:

Manufacturing Technology, MEC130

Journal articles

Smith PJ & Morrin A (2012) Reactive inkjet printing. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 22(22), 10965-10970.
Löffelmann U, Wang N, Mager D, Korvink JG & Smith PJ (2012) Solvent-free inkjet printing process for the fabrication of conductive, transparent, and flexible ionic liquid-polymer gel structures. Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics, 50(1), 38-46.
Loffelmann U, Korvink JG, Hendriks CE, Schubert US & Smith PJ (2011) Ink Jet Printed Silver Lines Formed in Microchannels Exhibit Lower Resistance Than Their Unstructured Counterparts. J IMAGING SCI TECHN, 55(4).
Bouendeu E, Greiner A, Smith PJ & Korvink JG (2011) A low-cost electromagnetic generator for vibration energy harvesting. IEEE Sensors Journal, 11(1), 107-113.
Mager D, Smith PJ & Korvink JG (2010) On-line monitoring and feedback control of inkjet printed capacitors using the modular custom made printing platform MicroStack3D. International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies, 726-729.
Smith PJ, Valeton JJP, Hermans K, Bastiaansen CWM, Broer DJ, Schubert US, Perelaer J & Crawford GP (2010) Room temperature preparation of conductive silver features using spin-coating and inkjet printing. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 20(3), 543-546.
Mager D, Peter A, Tin LD, Fischer E, Smith PJ, Hennig J & Korvink JG (2010) An MRI receiver coil produced by inkjet printing directly on to a flexible substrate.. IEEE Trans Med Imaging, 29(2), 482-487.
Madec MB, Smith PJ, Malandraki A, Wang N, Korvink JG & Yeates SG (2010) Enhanced reproducibility of inkjet printed organic thin film transistors based on solution processable polymer-small molecule blends. J MATER CHEM, 20(41), 9155-9160.
Perelaer J, Smith PJ, Mager D, Soltman D, Volkman SK, Subramanian V, Korvink JG & Schubert US (2010) Printed electronics: the challenges involved in printing devices, interconnects, and contacts based on inorganic materials. J MATER CHEM, 20(39), 8446-8453.
Perelaer J, Eckardt R, Schubert US, Smith PJ, Wijnen MMP, Van Den Bosch E & Ketelaars PHJM (2009) Droplet tailoring using evaporative inkjet printing. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 210(5), 387-393.
Perelaer J, Schubert US, Smith PJ, Van Den Bosch E, Van Grootel SSC & Ketelaars PHJM (2009) The Spreading of Inkjet-Printed Droplets with Varying Polymer Molar Mass on a Dry Solid Substrate. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 210(6), 495-502.
Meier H, Löffelmann U, Mager D, Smith PJ & Korvink JG (2009) Inkjetprinted, conductive, 25 uμm wide silver tracks on unstructured polyimide. Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science, 206(7), 1626-1630.
Walther M, Ortner A, Meier H, Löffelmann U, Smith PJ & Korvink JG (2009) Terahertz metamaterials fabricated by inkjet printing. Applied Physics Letters, 95(25).
Delaney JT, Schubert US & Smith PJ (2009) Inkjet printing of proteins. Soft Matter, 5(24), 4866-4877.
Hendriks CE, Smith PJ, Perelaer J, Van Den Berg AMJ & Schubert US (2008) "Invisible" silver tracks produced by combining hot-embossing and inkjet printing. Advanced Functional Materials, 18(7), 1031-1038.
Tekin E, Smith PJ & Schubert US (2008) Inkjet printing as a deposition and patterning tool for polymers and inorganic particles. Soft Matter, 4(4), 703-713.
Perelaer J, Hendriks CE, Van Den Berg AMJ, Schubert US & Smith PJ (2008) The preferential deposition of silica micro-particles at the boundary of inkjet printed droplets. Soft Matter, 4(5), 1072-1078.
Shin D-Y & Smith PJ (2008) Theoretical investigation of the influence of nozzle diameter variation on the fabrication of thin film transistor liquid crystal display color filters. Journal of Applied Physics, 103(11).
Mager D, Löffelmann U, Smith PJ, Peter A, Del Tin L & Korvink JG (2008) Inkjet printing of structures for MRI coils. International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies, 891-894.
van den Berg AMJ, Smith PJ, Perelaer J, Schrof W, Koltzenburg S & Schubert US (2007) Inkjet printing of polyurethane colloidal suspensions. Soft Matter, 3(2), 238-243.
van den Berg AMJ, de Laat AWM, Smith PJ, Perelaer J & Schubert US (2007) Geometric control of inkjet printed features using a gelating polymer. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY, 17(7), 677-683.
Tekin E, Smith PJ, Hoeppener S, van den Berg AMJ, Susha AS, Rogach AL, Feldmann J & Schubert US (2007) Inkjet printing of luminescent CdTe nanocrystal-polymer composites. ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 17(1), 23-28.
Smith PJ, Shin D-Y, Stringer JE, Derby B & Reis N (2006) Direct ink-jet printing and low temperature conversion of conductive silver patterns. Journal of Materials Science, 41(13), 4153-4158.
Dearden AL, O'Brien P, Smith PJ, Shin D-Y, Derby B & Reis N (2005) A low curing temperature silver ink for use in ink-jet printing and subsequent production of conductive tracks. Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 26(4), 315-318.

Conferences

Mager D, Raimann M, Smith PJ & Korvink JG (2009) MicroStack3D: A low cost production platform for micromanufacturing by inkjet printing. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1181, 317-323.
Smith PJ, Mager D, Löffelmann U & Korvink JG (2008) Inkjet printing silver-containing inks. International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies, 689-692.
Mager D, Smith PJ & Korvink JG (2007) Phase change rapid prototyping with aqueous inks. NIP 23: 23RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL PRINTING TECHNOLOGIES, TECHNICAL PROGRAM AND PROCEEDINGS/DIGITAL FABRICATION 2007, 908-911.
Stringer JE, Smith PJ & Derby B (2004) Droplet behaviour in inkjet printing. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 860, 1-6.

Reports

Dijksman F, Cibis D, Currle U, Meyer W, Anderson P, De Gans B-J, Tekin E, Wehl W, Smith PJ, Jabbour G, Voncken E, Bietsch A, Walder L, Hudd A & Schubert US (2005) Inkjet printing of functional polymers and materials: 2 international workshop in Eindhoven