Hitoshi Ohmori

Fundamental Characteristics of Bioprint on Calcium Alginate Gel

The goal of this study is to fabricate precision three-dimensional (3D) biodevices those are micro fluidics and artificial organs utilizing digital fabrication. Digital fabrication is fabrication method utilizing inkjet technologies. Electrostatic inkjet is one of the inkjet technologies. The electrostatic inkjet method has following two merits; those are high resolution to print and ability to eject highly viscous liquid. These characteristics are suitable to print biomaterials precisely. We are now applying for bioprint. In this paper, the electrostatic inkjet method is applied for fabrication of 3D biodevices that has cave like blood vessel. When aqueous solution of sodium alginate is printed to aqueous solution of calcium chloride, calcium alginate is produced. 3D biodevices are fabricated in case that calcium alginate is piled.

Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Utilizing Electrostatic Inkjet

Solar cell is one of the key technologies in this century because this has possibility to clear energy problems. We tried to pattern good titania layer of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) utilizing electrostatic inkjet. The electrostatic inkjet has good merit; that is ability to eject highly viscous liquid. We applied the merit for patterning titania paste on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) glass. In this paper, we investigated fundamental characteristics to pattern titania layer on FTO glass because efficiency depends on thickness of titania layer.