Low Cost Conductive Material and its Applications (Printed Electronics & Photovoltaics USA 2009)

Tom Ales is a research scientist with Kimberly-Clark Corporation focused on Technology Explore and Development. He joined K-C in 1996 and has been involved in a wide varieties of roles within the Corporation. These roles have involved pulp and paper chemistry, test method and instrumentation development and exploratory product development for absorbent garment and pant products. Since 2004 Tom has supported multiple key efforts to evaluate and commercialize sensor and indicator technologies for retail consumer and business to business product lines. Most recently his effort has focused on novel material developments that can provide safe, low cost, high volume, and supply feasible solutions for passive and active sensing and indicating benefits in disposable product forms.

Kimberly-Clark is a leading global health and hygiene company employing more than 55,000 people worldwide and posting sales of $16.7 billion in 2006. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with operations in 37 countries, Kimberly-Clark's global brands are sold in more than 150 countries. Every day, 1.3 billion people trust

Kimberly-Clark products and the solutions they provide to make their lives better. With well-known family care and personal care brands such as Kleenex, Scott, Andrex, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex, Poise and Depend, we hold the No. 1 or No. 2 share position globally in more than 80 countries.