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Aerosol Jet Printing (AJP) is an emerging contactless direct write approach aimed at the production of fine features on a wide range of substrates. Originally developed for the manufacture of electronic circuitry, the technology has been explored for a range of applications, including, active and passive electronic components, actuators, sensors, as well as a variety of selective chemical and biological responses. Freeform deposition, coupled with a relatively large stand-off distance, is enabling researchers to produce devices with increased geometric complexity compared to conventional manufacturing or more commonly used direct write approaches. Wide material compatibility, high resolution and independence of orientation have provided novelty in a number of applications when AJP is conducted as a digitally driven approach for integrated manufacture. This overview of the technology will summarise the underlying principles of AJP, review applications of the technology and discuss the hurdles to more widespread industry adoption. Finally, this paper will hypothesise where gains may be realised through this assistive manufacturing process.

The role of the subducting lithospheric slab in the genesis of mantle-derived (primitive) magmas is investigated through a study of volcanic rocks formed in the tectonically strike-slip-dominated western Aleutian arc. Two types of chemically and petrologically distinctive primitive andesites have been found among the Miocenelate Pleistocene-age volcanic rocks in the western Aleutians. These are termed the ''Adak-type'' and ''Piip-type'' magnesian andesites. Trace element and isotopic characteristics indicate that Adak-type magnesian andesites (adakites) formed principally as small percentage melts of the basaltic portion of the subducting oceanic crust, leaving a clinopyroxene-garnet-rutile residual mineralogy. The resulting slab melt signature (high La/Yb, Sr) distinguishes Adak-type magnesian andesites from all other Aleutian volcanic rocks. Primitive characteristics (high Mg#, Cr, Ni) and intermediate compositions (ϳ59% SiO 2) of Adak-type magnesian andesites were acquired by interaction with peridotite and/or basalt in the mantle wedge. The absence of olivine phenocrysts from Adak-type magnesian andesites indicates that they were not equilibrated with peridotite and so are unlike Piip-type magnesian andesites, which appear to have equilibrated under low pressure and hydrous conditions in the subarc mantle. Piip-type magnesian andesites also contain a slab melt component, but reaction-equilibration with peridotite has lowered La/Yb and Sr to levels like those of common Aleutian volcanic rocks. Miocene-age calc-alkaline rocks of the Komandorsky Islands have chemical characteristics transitional between those of Adak-type magnesian andesites and common Aleutian volcanic rocks from the central and eastern arc. In a source mixture of depleted mantle wedge, slab melt, and sediment, the Komandorsky rocks have a relatively large contribution from the slab melt endmember. The strong slab melt signature among western Aleutian rocks is attributed to highly oblique convergence that produced a slow subduction path into the subarc mantle. Geochemically, the slab melt provided a high Sr, La/Yb, La/Ta, and low Ti/Hf endmember to the western Aleutian source mixture. The enhanced role for slab melting in the western Aleutians may be like that predicted for Archean systems and for modern systems where the subduction zone is warm. In this regard, Adak-type magnesian andesites are probably the appropriate analog to sanukitoids and other primitive andesitic rocks of Archean age.

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