Project Grant 1822147

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 University of Massachusetts Lowell will provide collaborative research services under a $312,381 National Science Foundation Project Grant award titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: TRANSFORMING PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS WITH DIGITAL ALLOY MATERIALS." The award's period of performance is from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The research services will advance the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $1,100,000 to Southern University and A&M College (SUBR) to acquire an advanced laser powder bed fusion 3D printer for multi-material additive manufacturing research and education. The project aims to enhance engineering research and workforce development, particularly among underrepresented groups, through hands-on experience with this cutting-edge additive...

This $800,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will enable Iowa State University of Science and Technology to develop new materials and manufacturing methods for 3D printing multi-material objects with varying mechanical properties. The key objectives are to use machine learning to create resins enabling extreme mechanical contrast, develop a multi-material 3D printing process using photoswitches, and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) grant award of $582,289 to Mississippi State University, awarded on October 1, 2025, supports the development of a groundbreaking machine learning-assisted multi-material 3D printer with a novel hybrid deposition process. The project seeks to integrate continuous fiber reinforcement and liquid-like polymer inks, enabling unprecedented precision in manufacturing high-performance composite structures and functional devices....

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...

This Project Grant award of $650,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL) in developing an advanced in-situ laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing (AM) platform. The platform seeks to enable real-time monitoring and closed-loop control of the metal 3D printing process, aiming to improve the reliability and precision of complex, high-performance components. The award will fund the...

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...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $548,305 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Amherst under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "PFI-RP: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING FOR SCALABLE METALENS FABRICATION" from August 15, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant aims to develop additive manufacturing techniques for scalable fabrication of metalenses, which are planar optical components that can replace conventional refractive lenses. The...

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)...