Cooperative Agreement 70NANB14H043

This $606,413 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Central Florida to develop a new liquid metal processing strategy called Severe Ultrasonic Melt Shearing (SUMS) for manufacturing magnesium composite implants. The goal is to refine microstructures and improve corrosion resistance to enable use of magnesium in larger orthopedic and other medical implants. The research aims to understand microstructural...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $567,121 Project Grant to Michigan State University under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant funds fundamental research to develop a new metal additive manufacturing process using light projection of mixtures of photopolymer and metal powder. Rather than point-by-point printing, the proposed process would use digital light projection to cure an entire layer of photopolymer mixed with metal powder. This could enable high-speed...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $510,000 Project Grant under its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to The Ohio State University to establish the Center for Industrial Metal Forming (CIMF). The CIMF, which includes partners Oakland University and University of New Hampshire, will conduct cutting-edge pre-competitive fundamental research in metal forming science and engineering. The research aims to advance computational and materials modeling, develop innovative forming processes...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $598,148 to the University of California, San Diego for the period of January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. The award will support the development of new analytical frameworks to improve control of metal additive manufacturing processes through theoretical and experimental investigations. Specifically, the university...

This $12,286,600 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program supports a nationwide collaboration between industry and academia to pioneer an industrial-scale demonstration of alternative injectant refining and electromagnetic stirring (EMS) electric arc furnace (EAF) operation in the U.S. The project aims to enable complete decarbonization of the EAF...

Purdue University received a $452,928 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation to develop hierarchical design and additive manufacturing techniques for metallic programmable metamaterials. The goal of the research is to apply laser powder bed fusion to fabricate metallic programmable mechanical metamaterials and understand the influence of hierarchical design and additive manufacturing processes on microstructures,...

Intact Solutions Inc. was awarded a $252,805 cooperative agreement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609). The award will support CONTACT-AWARE PATH LEVEL (CAPL) THERMAL SIMULATION OF POWDER BED FUSION from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. Under this cooperative agreement, Intact Solutions will provide scientific and engineering research and technology transfer related to thermal...

Molten Industries Inc. received a $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop a novel method for tuning the production of high-quality solid carbon using methane pyrolysis. The company will conduct research to better understand carbon precipitation and formation in methane pyrolysis reactors. This will include developing an improved thermo-chemical model and reactor design to enable better control over producing...

The Department of Energy awarded a $30,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) to Boston Electrometallurgical Corp (doing business as Boston Metal) for a project titled "BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW (BIL) - CHAMPION: CHROMIUM ATR METALLURGY WITH PLASMA MELTING AND HOT ISOSTATIC PRESSING OF NEAR-NET-SHAPE HIGH-TEMPERATURE ALLOY PARTS". The project will focus on developing domestic...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award to the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) provides $618,137 to fund research aimed at advancing laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing by addressing the limitations of current practices that primarily use expensive, energy-intensive spherical metal powders. The key objectives are to: 1) enhance powder-spreading dynamics through multimodal particle sizes and a hybrid powder dispenser, and 2)...