Gov. Charlie Baker yesterday announced a $4 million Massachusetts Technology Collaborative grant to UMass Lowell to develop a printed and flexible electronics industry cluster, an emerging field with the potential to become a $76 billion global market over the next decade.
The new Printed Electronics Research Collaborative will position both large and small employers in Massachusetts to capitalize on the printed and flexible electronics field, which entails printing circuits on a base, or substrate, to create semiconductors and other electronics that are extremely thin, lightweight and flexible.
"Technical advances will enable us to generate 3-D drawings on the computer and directly print conductive and nonconductive components as easily as we now print with red, green and blue ink," said Julie Chen, vice provost for research. "We envision applications ranging from printed portable power and communications to novel drug delivery and diagnostic devices."
The four-year grant, which will be matched by $12 million in industry funding, will allow the Printed Electronics Research Collaborative initially to focus on supporting the state's defense cluster in printed electronics and branch out from there. Companies that have signed on include Raytheon of Waltham, MicroChem of Westboro and Rogers Corp. of Burlington, Chen said, and more are expected.
"The success of collaboration between the public and private sectors has been bearing fruit here for a number of years," Baker said. "This is exactly the sort of thing that should not only make us proud, but that we should do more of."
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