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Flexible Hybrid Electronics Heroes Presented With 2021 Fellow Awards by NextFlexNextFlex®, America's Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) Manufacturing Institute, presented the sixth annual NextFlex Fellow Awards recognizing four individuals who have made significant contributions toward furthering the development of the FHE and advanced manufacturing ecosystem. The winning fellows received this award for their work in expanding learning programs nationally, guiding development of human health monitoring projects, and leading advanced manufacturing and flexible electronics from a materials and industry perspective. This year's NextFlex Fellow Award winners are:
The NextFlex Fellows are shaping the future through their respective projects as well as through collaboration with NextFlex and its members, making their findings and successes available to the FHE community and driving innovation in flexible technology and the advanced manufacturing ecosystem supported by it. About NextFlex NextFlex, a DoD innovation institute established in 2015 as a public-private partnership formed through a cooperative agreement funded by Air Force Research Laboratory Cooperative Agreement numbers FA8650-15-2-5402 and FA8650-20-2-5506, is widely acknowledged as the pioneer of a new model of "next generation electronics manufacturing." In collaboration with its consortium of 100+ members across industry, academia, the non-profit sector, and state, local and federal governments, NextFlex accelerates the development of Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) and new additive manufacturing processes that are transforming the world of traditional electronics packaging. Since its formation, NextFlex's elite team of thought leaders, educators, problem solvers and manufacturers have collectively facilitated manufacturing innovation, created a more sustainable manufacturing ecosystem and begun to narrow the current manufacturing workforce gap in the USA. For more information, visit www.nextflex.us and follow NextFlex on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. About Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) FHE gives everyday products the power of silicon ICs by combining them with new and unique printing processes and new materials. The result: lightweight, low-cost, flexible, conformable, stretchable and highly efficient smart products with innumerable uses for consumer, commercial and military applications.
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