Mike Mastropietro

Mike Mastropietro serves as VP of Engineering at ACI Materials managing formulation R&D into product scale-up, customer technical support on materials and printing/deposition, purchasing of mixing, characterization, and other equipment. He has spent his entire 20+ year career working with printable electronically functional materials and additive manufacturing methods for FHE devices including formulation, conventional printing, direct-write printing, equilibrium, and non-equilibrium curing methods, and application development. Prior to joining ACI, he spent two years at NextFlex managing their printing/direct write programs and overseeing material selection and integration into devices. At 27 he cofounded a nanoparticle ink company, PChem Associates, whose unique low-temperature sintering ink technology was acquired a decade later by NovaCentrix.

He started his career at Parelec Inc., pioneer of hybrid particle-metalorganic decomposition (MOD) based inks. He has received an IPC Distinguished Committee Service award for his contributions PE/FHE standards and is a Nextflex fellow. Mike holds an M.S degree in chemical engineering from The Pennsylvania State University where his research on the synthesis of surfactant stabilized nanoparticles was awarded a 2000 Materials Research Institute Xerox Research Award.