An Andvanced Materials Platform to Reshape and Reimagine Electronics
Dr. Ajay Virkar, C3Nano Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Board Member
Presentation Abstract
C3Nano’s platform technology is being utilized to empower a wide variety of electronics ranging from smartphones and switchable windows to biomedical devices and transparent heaters for automotive applications. C3Nano will discuss this platform consisting of the highest quality and scale Silver Nanowires (AgNWs), Noble metal-coated Ultra-Nanowires™ with unprecedented stability and reliability, and its best-in-class ActiveGrid™ inks and coatings. These conductive coatings have outstanding flexibility and mechanical properties and are compatible with a broad array of flexible, stretchable, and formable substrates. C3Nano will also describe a recent technology breakthrough wherein its new ActiveGrid™ LT ink series can be cured at room temperature incredibly quickly (~25 C for ~ 1 min) to impart electrical conductivity on a variety of low Tg, soft, bio-compatible, and low-cost substrates targeting novel applications in displays, life-sciences, smart-packaging, and anti-statics. We will also describe how our NWs (and Ultra-NWs) are ideal materials for conductive fillers – achieving excellent conductivities at extremely low volume fractions (loadings) unlocking broad new applications and potentials in the multibillion-dollar conductive composites, adhesives and 3D-printing markets. Finally, C3Nano will discuss its some of its current commercial traction and how its technology platform is being used to generate smart surfaces and new functionalities in several of the aforementioned sectors. The ability to add electrical conductivity by depositing ActiveGrid ink as ultrathin layers on substrates, or by addition of low volume fractions of Nanowires and Ultra-Nanowires into composites, can liberate the imagination to enable new transformative displays, devices, and HMI experiences.
Dr. Ajay Virkar, C3Nano Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Board Member
Ajay oversees C3Nano’s research and new technology development, intellectual property, and manages several commercial and technical partnerships. He has helped C3Nano raise more than $75 Million in strategic and venture capital. Ajay has more than one hundred patents (issued or pending) and has co-authored eleven technical publications in peer-reviewed journals. He completed his BS in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (with honors) at the University of Illinois (UIUC) and his PhD in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. He is an advisor for the Department of Energy’s Made in America Solar Initiative and an associate producer for the documentary film Infinite Potential about the life and times of physicist and philosopher David Bohm.