The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,049,994 Project Grant to Cornell University under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund research from January 2022 through December 2026 to develop solvent-free synthesis methods for creating polymeric nanostructures with targeted material properties. Leveraging its expertise in materials engineering and nanotechnology, Cornell University will work to advance environmentally-friendly and cost-effective production...
This $399,843.00 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports a collaborative research project led by Cornell University. The project aims to develop chiral control of nanocluster-fiber architectures via confined evaporative assembly. This innovative research seeks to advance the understanding and capabilities in nanotechnology, materials science, and advanced manufacturing. The project has a performance period...
This $598,650 five-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program grant, awarded on August 1, 2024, supports fundamental research by The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) aimed at understanding the processing-structure-property relationships in metallic parts manufactured using a co-axial wire feed-powder feed laser directed energy deposition (DED) process. The research objectives are to: (1) compare deposit formations in the co-axial wire-powder DED process to singular wire...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $534,324 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on June 1, 2021 to support research titled "CAREER: LASER-INDUCED SOLVOTHERMAL SYNTHESIS FOR THE DIRECT-WRITE, MICROSCALE ADDITIVE PROCESSING OF METALS AND OXIDES." The research is being conducted under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering innovation and excellence. Specifically, the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to Cornell University under the Engineering CFDA program to develop fundamental research and manufacturing science for producing metal matrix composites via cold spray additive manufacturing. The 4-year project aims to advance the understanding of process-microstructure-property relationships for cold spraying metal matrix composites and leverage this knowledge for applications in aerospace, energy, and defense industries....
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award, funded under the NSF Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, supports research to investigate an innovative power field control strategy to achieve prescribed thermal histories throughout a part in powder bed fusion additive manufacturing. The $649,345 award to Carnegie Mellon University aims to address key challenges in qualifying and certifying powder bed fusion for aerospace and defense manufacturing by...
Cornell University was awarded a $337,635 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024 to develop scalable nanomanufacturing techniques for earth-abundant electrochromic materials. As part of its mission to improve engineering innovation and education, the NSF Engineering program supports projects like Cornell's that advance new nanoscale manufacturing processes...
This $247,667 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041), will fund collaborative research on laser powder-fed directed energy deposition (LP-DED) additive manufacturing. The University of Michigan will investigate fundamental interactions between high-speed metal particles and molten pools in LP-DED using synchrotron X-ray imaging and computational process modeling....
The National Science Foundation awarded $495,963 under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York at Binghamton, New York for a project titled "Mechanistic Understanding of Multi-Scale Sintering Behavior Influenced by Anisotropic Particle and Pore Distributions in Extrusion-Based Metal Additive Manufacturing." The award period is from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. The project will fund fundamental...
The National Science Foundation awarded Cornell University a $322,617 project grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund research from May 2021 through April 2024 related to actuating and sensing objects on a free surface. Specifically, the funding will support collaborative research to develop techniques for controlling and monitoring the behavior of objects located on liquid surfaces without direct contact. By enabling new types of contactless...