Project Grant DESC0019815

Purdue University received a $452,928 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation to develop hierarchical design and additive manufacturing techniques for metallic programmable metamaterials. The goal of the research is to apply laser powder bed fusion to fabricate metallic programmable mechanical metamaterials and understand the influence of hierarchical design and additive manufacturing processes on microstructures,...

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...

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...

Foli Research, LLC received a $205,494 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support additive manufacturing of high frequency transformers using coherent wire placement. The award period ran from June 28, 2021 through March 27, 2022. Under this funding, Foli Research developed techniques for the additive manufacturing of high frequency transformers through a process of coherent wire placement,...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $250,000 to Purdue University to develop an energy-efficient manufacturing process for producing lightweight titanium alloy sheet, foil and wire. Specifically, the award will support optimizing hybrid machining process parameters to influence material structure and properties for these thin gauge formats. The project will also characterize the new...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop a novel additive manufacturing process called Vacancy-Assisted Jet Fusion (VJF) for fabricating complex parts from transition-metal-carbide (TMC) ceramics. The $300,000 award to the University of Iowa aims to (1) quantify the effects of layerwise triggered electron flow on the diffusion of locally induced crystal vacancies, (2) uncover the underlying mechanisms governing...

This Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) award of $200,000, funded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CFDA 47.041) and awarded to the University of North Florida beginning July 1, 2026, will develop an integrated quality-control system to reduce defects in laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing. The primary deliverables include a lightweight computer vision model capable of detecting and quantifying recoater...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund the development of new metallic materials for high-temperature applications critical to improving the efficiency of jet engines and turbines. The grant recipient, The Ohio State University, will work with collaborators at NASA Glenn Research Center, GE Aerospace, and the Air Force Research Laboratory to utilize a novel additive manufacturing approach to create oxide dispersion...

This NSF Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program Project Grant awarded $660,150 to Arizona State University (ASU) on February 1, 2024 to establish the basis of a new manufacturing technique for producing ultrahigh electrical conductivity materials. The key objective is to develop an innovative process utilizing chemical vapor deposition and compression to fabricate continuous graphene-copper composite conductors with electrical properties exceeding pure copper. The research aims to understand the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $659,153 Project Grant to The Ohio State University to conduct research on the reuse and recycling of feedstock in the laser directed energy deposition metal additive manufacturing process. The research aims to reveal how characteristics of reused and recycled feedstock influence melting and solidification, addressing challenges in the qualification and certification of large components, such as hydropower...