Liang Pan receives NSF CAREER award
Liang Pan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation.
This $500,000 award supports fundamental research to provide needed knowledge for the development of a new low-cost process for nanoscale patterning, which will enable mass production of new kinds of nanotechnology-enabled products for a wide variety of applications in energy, healthcare, civil, defense and security. Nominally called "pattern-on-the-fly", the method involves scanning an array of electrical or optical probes at high speed to form nanostructures of various geometries on a substrate.