NanoPrintek - Inkless Multimaterial Printing Directly from Raw Materials - Breaking the Barriers in Cost, Time, Pollution, and Supply Chain

The current printed electronics manufacturing technologies are ink-based, requiring i) expensive and extensive ink formulation processes, ii) the need for a complex and polluting supply chain, and iii) the need for high-temperature post-processing. This has created issues such as surfactants and contaminants, limited availability of printing ink, and unstable ink properties. NanoPrintek presents its disruptive “dry multimaterial printing” technology, transforming the current printing ecosystem. This presentation highlights the unparalleled capability of this technology and demonstrates how it can print directly from raw materials, including metals, semiconductors, insulators, alloys, composites, and even a piece of rock. The key technology advantages include 1) on-demand and in-situ generation of various pure nanoparticles without contaminations, 2) in-situ and real-time laser sintering of nanoparticles on various substrates with no post-processing, and 3) multimaterial printing of hybrid and tunable nanocomposite materials and structures. This supply-chain-agnostic, clean, and highly cost-effective technology transforms the electronics printing ecosystem into a new realm where pure, multimaterial, multifunctional, and hybrid materials are printed on demand, enabling various applications across the electronics, healthcare, automotive, aerospace, defense, and energy industries.