Cooperative Agreement DEEE0011006

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $13.5 million cooperative agreement to GE Research, a division of General Electric Company, to develop additive and modular enabled rotor blades and integrated composites assembly (AMERICA) under the Conservation Research and Development program. The goal of this two-year project ending in August 2023 is to conduct research and development of additive manufacturing techniques and modular blade designs to enable...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) awarded Perseus Materials Inc. a $498,767 Project Grant to develop a new composite fabrication process for manufacturing wind turbine blades. The goal is to create variable cross-sectional wind turbine blades using an innovative casting technique. This 2-year project, which started on October 19, 2023, aims to deliver a transformative solution that can enhance the efficiency and performance of wind...

This $300,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) award through the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program supports fundamental research to discover a new class of polymers called Covalent Adaptable Networks (CANs) and their composites for sustainable manufacturing and recycling of wind turbine blades. The project aims to establish a systematic framework to design, synthesize, and test these reversible CAN materials that combine the stability of thermosets and malleability of thermoplastics. This...

This $199,522 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Houston Clear Lake to develop additive manufacturing techniques for composite tooling. Specifically, the university will conduct fundamental research to understand fused filament fabrication of thermoplastic composite molds embedded with heating wires. This will enable energy-efficient production of thermoset composites without costly autoclave ovens. The research aims to establish a dual-extrusion...

This $500,050 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research (DMR) and Directorate for Engineering (ENG) aims to advance metal additive manufacturing through the development of a novel multi-nozzle molten metal jetting process. The key products and services to be delivered under this 4-year award include: Expanding the industrial adoption of metal additive manufacturing by enabling cost-effective and high-speed production of metal components...

This $404,595 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program grant, awarded to the University of Delaware on March 1, 2024, supports research to enhance multi-material additive manufacturing (3D printing) through the use of advective assembly techniques. The project aims to develop modular 3D printing nozzles capable of rapidly structuring and depositing multi-material composites at higher resolution and volumetric throughput than conventional methods. This could enable new applications...

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...

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...

This Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084). The $274,579 award to Variables Machines Company aims to develop a reconfigurable additive manufacturing print bed composed of an array of linear actuators. This technology is expected to significantly reduce the cost, lead time, and material waste associated with large format additive manufacturing. The project entails designing the actuator...

This $2,600,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) supports Collaborative Composite Solutions Corporation (CCS), a non-profit organization, in developing large-scale 3D printed steel tools for molding lightweight automotive composite components. The 1-year project aims to advance additive manufacturing and composite materials innovations to enable low-cost, high-rate production of durable and...