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Our group at North Carolina State University in the Department of Electrical and computer engineering will create customizable printed electronics. To achieve this goal, we will use durable nano-materials and innovative device architectures for applications such as micro-robotics and sensors for extreme environments.

Why print electronics? Printed electronic components composed of conductive materials have increased mechanical robustness and reduced the cost of RFID tags, display connections, and electrodes for health monitoring. In these commercial applications, only passive components are printed. All active components are fabricated in a cleanroom including transistors and memory cells. Replacing active components with printed devices will continue to drive down production costs, shrink the size of the overall device, enable the use of sustainable materials and fabrication processes, and expand the application space of electronics. While there has been extensive work in developing complex printed devices, few have made multi-device circuits beyond singular logic gates. My group will work to tackle these challenges and more!