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Inkjet printing has evolved from an office printing application to become an important tool in industrial mass fabrication. In parallel, this technology is increasingly used in research laboratories around the world for the fabrication of entire (bio)chemical sensing devices or single functional elements of such devices. Regularly stated characteristics of inkjet printing making it attractive to replace an alternative material deposition method are low cost, simplicity, high resolution, speed, reproducibility, flexibility, non-contact, and low amount of waste generated. With this review, we give an overview over areas of (bio)chemical sensing device development profiting from inkjet printing applications. A variety of printable functional sensor elements are introduced by examples, and the advantages and challenges of the inkjet method are pointed out. It is demonstrated that inkjet printing is already a routine tool for the fabrication of some (bio)chemical sensing devices, but also that novel applications are being continuously developed. Finally, some inherent limitations of the method and challenges for the further exploitation of this technology are pointed out.

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Abbreviations

DBSA:

Dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid

DOD:

Drop-on-demand

HRP:

Horseradish peroxidase

LbL:

Layer-by-layer

LED:

Light emitting diode

LOD:

Limit of detection

ODF:

Oligodeoxyfluoroside

PANI:

Polyaniline

PEDOT-PSS:

Poly(3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene)-poly(styrenesulfonate)

SERS:

Surface enhanced Raman scattering

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Komuro, N., Takaki, S., Suzuki, K. et al. Inkjet printed (bio)chemical sensing devices. Anal Bioanal Chem 405, 5785–5805 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-013-7013-z

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