Cooperative Agreement 80NSSC22M0265

This $500,050 Future Manufacturing Research Grant (FMRG) award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research (DMR) and Engineering Directorates seeks to expand industrial adoption of metal additive manufacturing using an efficient molten metal droplet jetting process. The research aims to enable additive manufacturing of metal components that are cost, speed, and quality competitive with traditional casting and machining processes. Key objectives include developing high...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $250,000 to Purdue University to develop an energy-efficient manufacturing process for producing lightweight titanium alloy sheet, foil and wire. Specifically, the award will support optimizing hybrid machining process parameters to influence material structure and properties for these thin gauge formats. The project will also characterize the new...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $481,998 to support research at the University of California, Berkeley on developing a new additive manufacturing process for multi-material and multi-functional part fabrication. The principal investigator will conduct fundamental research into a charge-programmed additive microfabrication technique to rapidly pattern...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $1,249,705 to Hysa Fillers L.L.C. to develop and commercialize multi-principal element alloy (MPEA) fillers for brazing turbine engine components. The project aims to promote U.S. manufacturing independence by offering a breakthrough in braze filler materials that can enhance the cost-effectiveness, toughness, and reliability of...

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 $478,154 project grant to the University of Michigan through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "Fundamental Understanding of Amorphization Mechanism and Intermetallic Prevention in Friction-Based Solid-State Additive Manufacturing of Aluminum-Steel Bimetalic Components." The two-year project beginning January 1, 2022 aims to advance scientific understanding of material properties and manufacturing processes for...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) Project Grant award, valued at $150,000 and running from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027, supports collaborative research to develop simulation-informed models for additive manufacturing of amorphous metals. The research team at The Washington University aims to derive meaningful measures of material structure from electron nanodiffraction and simulation data, and build predictive...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $200,627 project grant to the Florida Institute of Technology Inc. (Florida TECH), a private university and non-profit organization, to conduct research on understanding fracture mechanics in additively manufactured functionally graded microcellular solids. The objectives of this 3-year research project are to: (1) demonstrate the production of different microcellular structures using additive...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $538,225 to Dartmouth College to conduct research on fabricating columnar-grained microstructures and single crystals of nickel-based superalloys through directional recrystallization of additively manufactured materials. The goal is to develop a cost-effective method for producing nickel alloy turbine blades, a critical component in jet engines. The research will investigate the...

This $142,686 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research will fund research at Northwestern University to investigate the mechanism behind an "abnormal columnar-to-equiaxed transition" (CET) observed in metals processed using wire-laser directed energy deposition (DED) techniques. Through in-situ synchrotron X-ray experiments and numerical simulations, the research aims to understand how short-range atomic orders in liquid metals and...