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In this paper, we propose a new method for manufacturing silver-based strain sensors with arbitrary and custom geometries directly on plastic objects with curvilinear surfaces: (1) the silver lines are deposited by aerosol jet printing, which can print on non-planar or 3D surfaces; (2) photonic sintering quickly cures the deposited layer, avoiding the overheating of the substrate. To validate the manufacturing process, we printed strain gauges with conventional geometry on polyvinyl chloride (PVC) conduits. The entire manufacturing process, included sensor wiring and optional encapsulation, is performed at room temperature, compatible with the plastic surface. At the end of the process, the measured thickness of the printed sensor was 8.72 \u03bcm on average, the volume resistivity was evaluated 40 \u03bc\u03a9\u2219cm, and the thermal coefficient resistance was measured 0.150 %\/\u00b0C. The average resistance was (71 \u00b1 7) \u03a9 and the gauge factor was found to be 2.42 on average.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19194220","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,30]],"date-time":"2019-09-30T05:58:33Z","timestamp":1569823113000},"page":"4220","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":54,"title":["Printed Strain Gauge on 3D and Low-Melting Point Plastic Surface by Aerosol Jet Printing and Photonic Curing"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1641-1790","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Michela","family":"Borghetti","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6497-5876","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mauro","family":"Serpelloni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8629-7316","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Emilio","family":"Sardini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7342","DOI":"10.1039\/C7NR01604B","article-title":"Inorganic nanomaterials for printed electronics: A review","volume":"9","author":"Wu","year":"2017","journal-title":"Nanoscale"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Rackauskas, S. 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