First Annual Conference on Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing Hosted by ERC in Austin
The University of Texas at Austin’s Nanomanufacturing Systems Center (NASCENT), an NSF-funded Engineering Research Center (ERC), hosted the first annual International Conference on Micro- and Nano-Devices Enabled by Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing in Austin, Texas from December 15–17, 2021. The conference brought together researchers and practitioners from around the world.
Manufacturing industry engineers and scientists gathered to present recent advances and best practices in all areas of roll-to-roll manufacturing systems, engineered nanomaterials, and flexible devices. The three-day program included one day of short courses, followed by two days of technical presentations and poster sessions.
Roll-to-roll manufacturing aims to enable the faster production of products and to benefit from economies of scale. Although it is expected to be the future production method for a variety of next-generation products, roll-to-roll manufacturing suffers from technical challenges that prevent it from being widely adopted by industry.
The first International Conference on Micro- and Nano-Devices Enabled by Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing focused on sharing possible solutions to these challenges, bringing together subject-matter experts from academia and industry for peer-reviewed presentations and short courses.
