Project Grant 1345871

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $275,000 to Novineer, Inc. to develop novel approaches for optimizing the layout, fiber paths, and plastic infill distribution in 3D printed composite materials. The project aims to advance the state-of-the-art in additive manufacturing for end-use parts by creating automated design software that can tailor the material distribution to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $265,072 Project Grant to Perseus Materials, Inc. under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to establish the thermal and mechanical limits of novel, fiber-reinforced, plastic composite materials (FRPs) and pioneer a fast-manufacturing process for these FRPs. The project objectives are to enable widespread adoption of lightweight FRPs in...

This STTR Phase I Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to develop a novel manufacturing process to produce melt-extrudable polyacrylonitrile (PAN)-based precursor fibers for carbon fiber production. The $305,000 award to Graphenetx Inc., with a period of performance from May 2025 to April 2026, seeks to replace the current hazardous solvent-based spinning process with a melt-spinning...

This $600,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Southern California to develop new manufacturing methods for recycling post-consumer carbon fiber composite materials. The research aims to preserve the value of continuous carbon fibers and recover the polymer matrix from aircraft and other composites currently buried in landfills or subjected to pyrolysis. The project will study techniques to remanufacture recycled carbon fibers and polymer matrix...

This Project Grant award of $267,524 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to enable the manufacture of high-performance thermoplastic composite structures through faster and less energy-intensive processes. The research, conducted by an international team from the University of California-San Diego, Michigan Technological University, NASA, and the University of Wuppertal in Germany, aims to develop a physics-based, multiscale modeling...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research by Arizona State University (ASU) to enable additive manufacturing of high-quality fiber-reinforced polymer composites through in-situ thermal polymerization of the matrix resin. The total award amount is $647,188 with a project period from November 1, 2024 to April 30, 2028. The research aims to develop a new composite manufacturing platform that uses a remote stimulus...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Composites Automation LLC, a for-profit limited liability company focused on composites manufacturing and materials research. The grant, funded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), supports Composites Automation's work to develop techniques to recycle carbon fiber and plastic composites from end-of-life vehicles into construction materials. This project aims to contribute to...

This $1,249,998 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships) to Endeavor Composites, Inc., a small disadvantaged business located in Knoxville, Tennessee, aims to develop an innovative mixer technology for the sustainable repurposing of off-spec and recycled carbon fiber into low-cost, defect-free, nonwoven fabrics. The project will focus on producing and evaluating advanced composite materials, including hybrid...

This $578,437 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Texas A&M University to develop fast manufacturing techniques for high-performance thermoplastic polymer composites. The research aims to engineer the crystallinity of these composites during fast processing to achieve high stiffness, strength and toughness concurrently. Nanomaterials consisting of cellulose nanocrystals and graphene nanoplatelets will be used to control crystallinity without hazardous solvents...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will support the development of sustainable nonwoven fabrics from off-specification and recycled carbon fiber. Endeavor Composites, Inc. will receive $256,000 to establish processes for fabricating mats using off-spec materials, including trims and recycled fibers. They will optimize operations for mats made from different blended combinations of carbon fiber grades and develop models to predict dispersion conditions for optimal nonwoven...