Franklin manufacturer teams with University of Minnesota to create smart labels
Carpe Diem Technologies' staff
Franklin nano-technology manufacturer Carpe Diem Technologies, has signed an exclusive deal agreement to commercialize technology from the University of Minnesota to print interactive labels able to be put on food, pharmaceuticals, flexible displays and self-powered sensors.
Terms of the deal were not released.
Carpe Diem CEO John Berg said Minnesota professors Daniel Frisbie and Lorraine Francis harnessed a way to print electronic inks into substrates, such as paper and plastics. Applications for this technology he said, include smart labels for consumer products.
Until now, Berg said, these applications were difficult because traditional printing tools such as inkjet and screen printing, were inadequate to the task of making the small aligned features required in electronics.
With this invention, Berg said an initial alignment layer is created with fluid channels which wicks the inks to where needed. This wicking comes from larger reservoirs on the substrate which are easily filled by inkjet or screen print. The circuit then virtually builds itself with dimensions and alignment defined in the first imprint layer.
Carpe Diem works in the world of nanometers to microns, frequently on low-cost flexible substrates such as paper, plastic, and metal foils or web.
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