Project Grant 2501476
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) project grant award of $250,000.00 provides funding from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028 to the University of Wisconsin System for research to develop an integrated design optimization framework for the synthesis and additive manufacturing of customized hydrogel materials. The research aims to create a cost-efficient methodology for designing the hydrogel synthesis and 3D printing processes together to achieve...
- This Project Grant award of $198,932 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research to improve the additive manufacturing of soft elastomers. The research aims to develop novel experimental techniques to uncover the fundamental process dynamics of vat photopolymerization 3D printing, addressing critical knowledge gaps that prevent high-quality printing of soft materials for applications like biomedical devices and soft robotics. The...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is funding research at The Leland Stanford Junior University to engineer a transformative new vat polymerization process for advanced manufacturing, named "ICLIP". The key objectives are to develop computer simulation and theory to enable injection of resin through the printed part during the additive manufacturing process, which could result in a two order of magnitude increase in...
- 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...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award of $152,007, granted under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049), aims to develop a simple and efficient method for creating structured hydrogels using liquid-liquid phase separation. The project, conducted by the University of New Hampshire, seeks to engineer hydrogels with customizable microstructures that vary in shape, size, and stiffness to better understand how material structure affects mechanical...
- 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....
- This $499,999 federal Project Grant was awarded on April 1, 2025 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant was awarded to Arizona State University (ASU) to develop a computational framework that accelerates the prediction and optimization of microstructures in additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing processes. Specifically, the project aims to design a new class of graph neural networks that can...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $450,000 in funding to New York University to design gel materials with controlled mechanical and optical properties. The key products and services to be delivered under this 4-year award include: Developing new computational simulation methods and open-source software to design colloidal gel networks with tunable characteristics. The project will advance strategies to modularly control the...
- This $200,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering grant (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research at Texas State University to investigate material-process-microstructure-property relationships in the direct ink writing of high-viscosity rubber nanocomposites. The goal is to optimize material composition and manufacturing process parameters to achieve high-quality 3D-printed parts with enhanced mechanical, electromechanical, and time-dependent properties. Key activities include...
- This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) supports research into an innovative manufacturing technique for producing thin polymer films. The total award amount is $517,969.00 over the period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027. The research aims to develop a comprehensive framework for the electrospray deposition process by integrating experiments, computational modeling, and artificial intelligence/machine learning methods. This will...
This $250,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research at Arizona State University (ASU) to develop an integrated design optimization framework for the synthesis and additive manufacturing of customized hydrogel materials. The research aims to create cost-efficient methodologies for designing hydrogel synthesis and 3D printing processes to achieve desired product performance for applications in healthcare, robotics, and other sectors. The project will develop interpretable uncertainty quantification models and decision algorithms to optimize the multi-stage hydrogel synthesis and printing process. The research will utilize a dedicated "hardware in the loop" experimental platform, dynamic-fluid-assisted micro-continuous liquid interface printing (DF-μCLIP), to synergize in-situ hydrogel synthesis and printing. Successful outcomes are expected to shorten the design cycle of new hydrogel materials and processes, enabling wider utilization and rapid scale-up of additive-manufactured hydrogel products. No sub-awards are planned for this project, which has an award period from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $250.0k | 8/15/25 |