Rapid low-temperature, vacuum-free metallization via melted metal spray for electronic and photovoltaic devices

Authors: Samuel Porcar-Garcia, Olfa Selmi, Abderrahim Lahlahi, Santiago Toca, Antoni Merin, Xavier Alcobe, Sofia Masi, Rosario Vidal, Iván Mora-Seró, Jaime González-Cuadra, Juan Bautista Carda

Journal Name: Materials & Design

Year of Publication: 2026

Volume: 264

Pagination: 115812

Acknowledgments: The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial and institutional support that made this work possible. Jaime González Cuadra acknowledges the postdoctoral contract (reference CIAPOS/2023/425) and the predoctoral contract (reference CIACIF/2022/277), both co-funded by the Generalitat Valenciana (Valencian Community Government) and the European Social Fund (FSE+). Authors acknowledges financial support for project PRINT-P (MFA/2022/020) that forms part of the Advanced Materials programme and was supported by MCIN (Spain) with funding from European Union NextGenerationEU (PRTR-C17.I1) and by Generalitat Valenciana and also to the Project CLUSKER: INNEST/2024/420 financed by the “Instituto Valenciano de Competitividad Empresarial” (IVACE). This work was also supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain MCIN/AEI/https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033/ and by FEDER “Una manera de hacer Europa” under Project ConFlex (PID2023-151880OB-C33). O. S. acknowledges financial support from Comunidad Valenciana through the program GRISOLIA (CIGRIS/2022/122). The authors also thank the Scientific Instrumentation Services (SCIC) at the Universitat Jaume I (Spain) for providing access to facilities and equipment essential for sample characterization, and the Càtedra d’Innovació Ceràmica “Ciutat de Vila-real” de la Universitat Jaume I for their support.

Article Page: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127526003850?viaihub

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2026.115812

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