Cooperative Agreement 80NSSC24M0053

This $603,512 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of novel additive manufacturing techniques for complex structural ceramics. Funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the five-year award to the University of Iowa aims to mature a powder bed ceramic additive manufacturing process assisted by water-based inks, layerwise uniaxial compression, and temperate heating for selective particle fusion. By employing selectively deposited water-based inks followed by...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $453,682 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant to Arizona State University (ASU) to conduct fundamental research on ceramic binder jet additive manufacturing. The project, titled "CAREER: Powder Preparation and Compaction for Ceramic Binder Jet Additive Manufacturing," aims to generate new knowledge about how powder granule characteristics and compaction affect the density of ceramic parts produced through this advanced...

General Electric Company's GE Additive division was awarded a $1,466,390 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to develop a novel additive manufacturing process for fabricating silicon carbide matrix composite heat exchangers. The objective is to utilize an advanced additive manufacturing machine and method to fabricate complex silicon carbide components and incorporate chopped fibers to enable composite properties for applications...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $274,915 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant to Alternative Energy Materials, LLC, a small for-profit limited liability company based in Pullman, Washington. The grant, funded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), supports the development of a novel dry powder pressing additive manufacturing technique for fabricating multifunctional ceramic monoliths with internal flow structures....

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop a novel additive manufacturing process called Vacancy-Assisted Jet Fusion (VJF) for fabricating complex parts from transition-metal-carbide (TMC) ceramics. The $300,000 award to the University of Iowa aims to (1) quantify the effects of layerwise triggered electron flow on the diffusion of locally induced crystal vacancies, (2) uncover the underlying mechanisms governing...

This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to advance the capability of metal additive manufacturing (AM) technologies to develop single-phase concentrated solid-solution alloys (SP-CSAs) with superior radiation tolerance. The key objectives of this 2-year project are to: (i) synthesize SP-CSAs with varying compositions, structures, and defects using laser-directed energy deposition AM; (ii) investigate...

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)...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) totaling $344,918 will establish a collaborative research program at Florida International University (FIU) to develop advanced data-driven approaches for additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing of materials with locally tunable electrical and mechanical properties. The research aims to create new polymer resin formulations for digital light processing (DLP) 3D printing that can...

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...