This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to Vitro3D Inc. is for the development of Parallax Manufacturing, a novel contact-free additive manufacturing technology with record-breaking throughput, part size, and resolution. The project aims to address key technical hurdles to enable an alpha prototype, including optimizing the optical toolhead, developing post-processing methods, and establishing manufacturing...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) Project Grant award, totaling $911,200, supports the acquisition of a 2-photon 3D printer at The Washington University in St. Louis. The advanced 3D printer will enable the fabrication of micro- and nano-scale devices and structures, allowing researchers to probe cell and tissue behaviors, enhance chemical reactions, explore the properties of new materials, and create novel microrobots. The diverse research team will...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant through its Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) to Georgia Tech Research Corporation in the amount of $249,689 for the project "3D Printed Tissue Implants for Facial Surgery." The project aims to develop a platform for 3D printing tissue implants for facial surgery, enabling the design and rapid manufacturing of implants for tissue reconstruction. The work will involve evaluating the impact...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program project grant of $505,789, awarded to the University of Houston System, will fund research to advance data analytics and decision-making methods for improving the operational efficiency of cooperative 3D printing (C3DP) technology. The key objectives are to: (1) create a model to predict the positional accuracy of robot 3D printers and identify maintenance needs; (2) develop stochastic optimization models for maintenance planning,...
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 $274,579 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to develop a reconfigurable additive manufacturing print bed composed of an array of linear actuators. This technology can drastically reduce the cost, lead time, and material waste associated with large format additive manufacturing by eliminating the need for printed support structures. The research and development efforts will focus on...
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...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant in the amount of $274,811 awarded to Anova Biomedical, Inc. in Ithaca, NY aims to develop a novel 3D printing resin for the production of personalized, elastic, and bioresorbable vascular grafts. The key objectives of this 1-year award are to: 1) develop, characterize, and optimize the 3D printing resin; 2) demonstrate the ability to 3D print personalized vascular grafts using patient CT...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to engineer a transformative new vat polymerization process for advanced manufacturing called "ICLIP". The $511,664 award to Stanford University will fund research to develop computer simulations and theory connecting the physical properties of resins, the geometry of the injection network, printing speed, and part geometry. The goal is to remove limitations of current vat...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $231,806 provides funding from April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2025 to the University of Nevada, Reno under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083). The award will support research exploring microstructure evolution in stimuli-responsive yield-stress fluids for assisted 3D printing applications. Specifically, the university will characterize static microstructure models in a Pluronic F127-nanoclay nanocomposite and explore...