NSF Awards $400,000 to UA Polymer Engineer for Novel Sensor Technology
AKRON, OH—University of Akron polymer engineers devised a method for developing a new class of sensors critical for environmental monitoring, remote sensing, fiber optic communication, day- and night-time surveillance, and emerging medical imaging devices — for which they received a $400,000 National Science Foundation CAREER award to advance this research.
Led by Xiong Gong, assistant professor of polymer engineering, the research entails fabricating and optimizing solution-processed sensors that do not require cooling to function with highly sensitive detection capability. The result: low-cost, multicolor, high-efficiency and high-speed sensory with detection that spans from ultraviolet to infrared.