Project Grant N000141210073

This $1,500,000 Project Grant awarded on October 1, 2024 by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) is funding research on "COMPOSITIONALLY COMPLEX CERAMICS FOR HYPERSONICS VIA KNOWLEDGE-GUIDED CERAMIZATION". The primary awardee, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), is leading this multi-institutional research effort, with sub-awards going to Northwestern University, Arizona State University, Pennsylvania State...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $335,000 provides funding to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY) to conduct collaborative research on developing tough and 3D-printable ceramic nanocomposite materials. The objective is to overcome the inherent fragility of ceramic materials through the use of boron nitride nanotubes as reinforcing fillers within a polymer-derived ceramic matrix. The research will utilize...

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 $274,915 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a novel additive manufacturing technique for fabricating multifunctional ceramic monoliths with internal flow structures. The project aims to advance the science of dry powder deposition and transfer to enable higher-throughput printing of ceramic materials not amenable to laser sintering,...

This Project Grant award, valued at $314,721, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Illinois. The funding supports collaborative research to develop durable and 3D-printable ceramic nanocomposite materials. The research aims to overcome the intrinsic fragility of polymer-derived ceramics by reinforcing them with small quantities of boron nitride nanotubes. This research will advance the scientific understanding and...

General Electric Company's GE Additive division was awarded a $1,466,390 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to develop a novel additive manufacturing process for fabricating silicon carbide matrix composite heat exchangers. The objective is to utilize an advanced additive manufacturing machine and method to fabricate complex silicon carbide components and incorporate chopped fibers to enable composite properties for...

This Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA 81.135) to the University of Wisconsin - Madison. The objective is to address challenges in developing manufacturing processes for ultra-high temperature refractory metal alloys (RMAs) to enable increased energy efficiency through higher operating temperatures in turbine applications. The $2,633,573 award supports research to develop an environmental...

The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF) received a $516,594 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research on July 15, 2021 to complete the project by June 30, 2024. The grant will fund RF's research into atomic to micro scale understanding of low temperature degradation mechanisms in zirconia-based ceramics. This work supports the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goal of increasing fundamental scientific knowledge...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $322,809 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to conduct collaborative research on designing and manufacturing ultrahigh temperature ceramics. The overarching goal is to develop ceramics with improved toughness and deformation resistance at both low and high temperatures, enabling their use in extreme environment applications like hypersonic flight,...

Free Form Fibers LLC received a $250,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support work through June 26, 2023. The grant will fund research to design, model, and experimentally validate techniques for optimizing the life of ceramic matrix composite components used in hydrogen turbines. This work supports the goals of the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049) to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that transform...