Project Grant DESC0022710

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...

This $702,115 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the "Center for Science of Heterogeneous Additive Printing of 3D Materials (SHAP3D)" led by the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML). The goal of the center is to advance fundamental research and enable new capabilities in heterogeneous 3D printing, allowing the integration of diverse materials and complex structures to produce multi-functional products. Key...

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 $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 $800,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will enable Iowa State University of Science and Technology to develop new materials and manufacturing methods for 3D printing multi-material objects with varying mechanical properties. The key objectives are to use machine learning to create resins enabling extreme mechanical contrast, develop a multi-material 3D printing process using photoswitches, and...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,149,379 Project Grant through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to develop methods and materials for additive manufacturing that enable 3D printing of multi-material objects. The key research objectives are: 1) developing multi-material digital light processing (DLP) resins using machine learning to create patterns with extreme mechanical contrast, 2) creating a...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award for $647,188 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support fundamental research on additive manufacturing of polymer composites with high concentrations of carbon fibers. The research will enable rapid manufacturing of complex composite structures without molds through an innovative in-situ polymerization process. This project, led by Arizona State University, will develop a new composite manufacturing platform that uses remote...