Project Grant DESC0011394

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 $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 $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 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...

Additive Manufacturing Innovations LLC received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. The award will support the development of a next-generation, computationally efficient software for simulating additive manufacturing processes of metals from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2022. The National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships Directorate seeks to advance science,...

This Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084). The $274,579 award to Variables Machines Company aims to develop a reconfigurable additive manufacturing print bed composed of an array of linear actuators. This technology is expected to significantly reduce the cost, lead time, and material waste associated with large format additive manufacturing. The project entails designing the actuator...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $649,345 to Carnegie Mellon University to investigate an innovative power field control strategy to achieve prescribed thermal histories throughout parts produced via powder bed fusion additive manufacturing. The research aims to enable the design of novel processing pathways to tailor material properties, fully utilizing the processing capabilities of open-architecture...

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 from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $598,148 to the University of California, San Diego for the period of January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. The award will support the development of new analytical frameworks to improve control of metal additive manufacturing processes through theoretical and experimental investigations. Specifically, the university...

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)...