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Ethan Secor

Associate professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State University who works on printed electronics, functional inks and aerosol jet deposition, and co-founded Contour Circuits.

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Iowa State mounts an aerosol jet printer on a robot arm to print circuits on curved parts

Ethan Secor's group sprays ink as a mist through a nozzle a robotic arm carries over non-flat surfaces, at feature sizes of 10 to 100 microns. NASA has put $150,000 behind commercialising it.

Publishers:interestingengineering.com

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