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Michael Mastropietro
Senior Engineering Manager
NextFlex


Mike Mastropietro is part of NextFlex’s technology commercialization team whose goal is to demonstrate scalable additive manufacturing of flexible, stretchable, and 3D hybrid electronics and devices. He manages the conventional and direct write printing equipment installed in the institute’s cleanroom and the process development work on these systems. Previously he worked at NovaCentrix after their acquisition of his company, PChem Associates Inc. As co-founder and chief-technologist of PChem he spent a decade developing, patenting, and commercializing nanoparticle based inks, additive circuit manufacturing processes, and printed devices and electronics. He started his career at Parelec Inc., pioneers of next generation hybrid particle-metalorganic decomposition (MOD) based functional inks. He has expertise in chemical precipitation synthesis of metallic nanoparticles, colloid stabilization methods, and formulation of printable functional ‘inks’ for electronics applications. He is proficient in conventional and direct write printing methods, flash lamp curing, and other processing technologies for additive manufacture of 2D flexible and 3D hybrid electronics. Mastropietro holds a M.S degree in chemical engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. His research on synthesis of surfactant stabilized nanoparticles was awarded a 2000 Materials Research Institute Xerox Research Award.

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