Hantang Qin, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps grant to support his lab’s work developing a portable electrohydrodynamic inkjet printer for use in in-space manufacturing and antigravity 3D printing.
PhD student Li Yu is leading the effort, which builds upon Qin’s previous work on printing for in-space production of flexible sensors, wearable devices and more. But it also holds potential for other micro- or nano-manufacturing applications and beyond.
NSF’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program focuses on accelerating entrepreneurial, translational projects. Qin’s group worked with UW-Madison’s Technology Entrepreneurship Office, which is heading up the university’s participation in the Great Lakes I-Corps Hub, to secure the funding.
Read more here: https://engineering.wisc.edu/blog/qin-secures-i-corps-funding-for-in-space-printing-tech/