Intellectual Property, Funding, and Publications

Patents

Dust Mitigating Nanotexture and Method of Making, filed May 17, 2023, PCT WO2023225087A1.

Conformal micro- or nanopatterned nanoimprint lithography master and methods of making and using the same, filed October 6, 2022, US Patent Application 17/917,474.

Methods and systems for fast imprinting of nanometer scale features in a workpiece, issued August 11, 2020, US Patent 10737434 (SMS has exclusive license to this NCSU patent).

Methods and systems for fast imprinting of nanometer scale features in a workpiece, issued May 1, 2018, US Patent 9956720 (SMS has exclusive license to this NCSU patent).

Research Grants

Army Phase II STTR, Roll‐to-roll fabrication of a large‐area plasmonic metamaterial with a prescribed LWIR spectral signature, contract W911SR-23-C-0026, $1,314,850.

Army Phase II SBIR, Roll-to-roll fabrication of nanopatterned thin-film solar panels, contract W51701-23-C-0213, $1,730,222.

Army Phase I SBIR, Nanopatterned coatings for thin-film solar panels, contract W51701-22-C-0116, $249,997.

NASA Phase II SBIR, Passive Nano-and Micro-Textured Dust-Mitigation Surfaces in Space-Grade Materials Made with a Highly Scalable Fabrication Process, contract 80NSSC-22-C-A124, $749,999.

NASA Phase I SBIR, Passive Nano-and Micro-Textured Dust-Mitigation Surfaces in Space-Grade Materials Made with a Highly Scalable Fabrication Process, contract 80NSSC-21-C-0252, $124,894.

Army Phase II SBIR, Highly scalable mastering and roll-to-roll processing of tuned spectral absorbers, contract W911SR-21-C-0016, $1,154,323.

Army Phase II Sequential STTR, Computation and fabrication tools for sub-wavelength texturing of visible and IR surfaces, contract W15QKN-19-C-0044, $999,930.

Army Phase I SBIR, Highly scalable mastering and roll-to-roll processing of tuned spectral absorbers, contract W911SR-20-C-0005, $108,000.

NSF Phase II SBIR, Ultrasonic nanocoining for creating large, low-cost arrays of sub-wavelength features, contract 1738387, $923,481.

NSF Phase I STTR, Ultrasonic nanocoining for creating large, low-cost arrays of sub-wavelength features, contract 1521227, $244,933.

Podcasts

Scaling Nanotechnology from Research Labs to Consumer Products (ft. Dr. Nichole Cates), Episode 64, It’s a Material World Podcast. Available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more.

Selected Publications

Engineering large-area antidust surfaces by harnessing interparticle forces, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2023), 15, 10

Seamless cylindrical mold for roll-to-roll nanoimprint lithography fabricated using nanocoining, a highly scalable nanofabrication process, Nanotechnology (2021), 32 15530.

Large-area micro and nanopatterned drum molds through novel nanocoining process, TechConnect Briefs (2019), page 365.

Metrology of nano- and micro-scale features created with a large-area indenting process - nanocoining, Proceedings of the 34th ASPE Annual Meeting (2019), page 412.

Recent advances in ultrasonic nanocoining to create large arrays of sub-wavelength features, Proceedings of the 33rd ASPE Annual Meeting (2018), page 108.