Fang Receives NSF Career Program Award

Assistant Professor Nicholas Fang has received a National Science Foundation Career Program award to integrate research and education in the area of nano ionic manufacturing. The NSF Career Program supports early career development activities of teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education activities.

Fang is developing a solid-state electrochemical nanoimprinting technology that may lead to lower costs and higher yields in manufacturing by allowing high-resolution nanopatterns to be made in metal films in a single step. He and other MechSE scholars recently demonstrated that the process can be used to print directly onto copper--a breakthrough that opens the possibility of printing interconnects for microchips and lead wires directly onto circuit boards, allowing for boards that have few feature limitations but are still compact.