Project Grant 1621773

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project grant, awarded to Meteora3D, Inc., will develop a rapid lift-based peel separation masked inverted stereolithography 3D printing technology for urgent procedural planning. The $275,000 award, effective December 1, 2024 through November 30, 2025, aims to advance scientific understanding and technological capabilities of desktop inverted vat...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1,000,000 to Iris Light Technologies Inc., a small business in Chicago, Illinois, to develop foundry-scale production of on-chip silicon photonic light emitters enabled by printed photonic ink. The project aims to create black phosphorus-based inks that can be integrated directly onto silicon photonic chips to produce on-chip lasers. This...

This $350,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of nanoscale single photon 3D printing technology at Purdue University from January 2023 through December 2024. Funded through NSF's Engineering Directorate under the CFDA 47.041 program for engineering research and education, this award contributes to the Foundation's mission of progressing science and supporting national prosperity and security. Specifically, the project aims to advance nanomanufacturing...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $521,832 supports research to develop an "all-on-a-chip" nanomanufacturing system capable of additively printing three-dimensional features at the deep-nanometer scale. The research aims to leverage advancements in electrified droplet ejection and nanofluidics to enable the use of yoctoliter-to-zeptoliter scale droplets for high-resolution, integrated circuit-compatible additive...

This SBIR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), aims to develop a novel liquid crystal polymer (LCP) called Tullomer to address limitations in fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printing. The $275,000 grant, awarded to Z-Polymers, Inc., will fund the optimization of Tullomer's monomer ratios, integration of nucleation additives, and control of mesogenic state formation to enhance...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $354,290 to Duke University to acquire a first-of-its-kind "Hummink Nazca" capillary flow printer. This advanced printing system offers sub-micron resolution and compatibility with a broad range of ink viscosities, enabling novel applications in areas such as printed biosensing transistors, nanoparticle-enhanced biomarker detection, and reduced...

Iris Light Technologies Inc. received a $256,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation on December 1, 2021 to support research and development efforts concluding on November 30, 2022. Funded through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA #47.041), the award aims to advance electro-luminescence and doping of black phosphorus for printed lasers on silicon photonic chips. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and...

This $250,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships project grant to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station will support the development and commercialization of a microscale three-dimensional (3D) printer for multi-materials. The two-year project aims to advance the miniaturization of systems and products by addressing the growing need for manufacturing smaller devices through the scale-up of laser-based micro and nanoscale 3D printing with submicron...

This $257,665 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), aims to establish an innovative electrohydrodynamic (EHD) 3D printing technology for fabricating microscale 3D electronics. The key objectives are: 1) studying the relationship between ink composition and rheological properties, 2) investigating spatial photonic sintering of metallic nanoparticles, and 3) developing the "Intense Pulsed Light Assisted EHD 3D...

This Project Grant award of $305,000.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of an advanced plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) processing technology using nanosecond pulse power. The goal is to advance semiconductor manufacturing by providing cutting-edge technology to produce super-thin, high-quality coatings for advanced semiconductor chips. The technology uses rapid, controlled bursts of...