Project Grant N000142412347

This $118,700 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the acquisition of an ultrasonic atomization and alloying platform for additive manufacturing research and education at the University of Louisville. The platform will enable production of custom metal powders for additive manufacturing technologies using an ultrasonic method to fabricate powders from traditional raw materials, including those with extremely high melting points. This...

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)...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research (DMR) and other directorates within the Directorate for Engineering (ENG) aims to advance metal additive manufacturing (3D printing) using a novel multi-nozzle molten metal jetting process. The $500,050 award to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program seeks to enable additive manufacturing of metal components that are cost and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $300,000 to Clemson University to advance the capability of metal additive manufacturing (AM) technologies in developing radiation-tolerant single-phase concentrated solid-solution alloys (SP-CSAS). The research aims to generate new knowledge on SP-CSAS' radiation tolerance and their intrinsic compositions, structures, and defects through experimental and computational...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through its Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), awarded a $694,000 Project Grant to the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (SDSM&T) for the "Development of Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing for Tungsten-Based Plasma-Facing Components." The award period runs from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025. Under this grant, SDSM&T, in collaboration with the University of New Mexico (UNM) as a sub-awardee, will...

This five-year, $648,748 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research at Cornell University to develop a unified framework for understanding and predicting critical velocity, microstructural development, micro-scale bond strength, and macro-scale mechanical properties of cold-sprayed metal deposits. The Principal Investigator will conduct laser-induced micro-scale projectile impact testing with high-resolution imaging to produce well-defined high-velocity individual bonded...

This Project Grant award of $305,000.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of an advanced plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) processing technology using nanosecond pulse power. The goal is to advance semiconductor manufacturing by providing cutting-edge technology to produce super-thin, high-quality coatings for advanced semiconductor chips. The technology uses rapid, controlled bursts of...

Ultramet received a $206,500 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to develop porous yttrium-chromium hydride as an increased-performance and reduced-cost microreactor moderator. The award is being carried out under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports basic research to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $970,748 in funding to Advanced Technology International (ATI) and its subrecipients to demonstrate chemical processes for powder production of novel, advanced refractory metal alloys and refractory complex concentrated alloys. The goal is to enable energy-efficient powder production processes for inherently less expensive alloy compositions, as...

This Project Grant award of $250,000 from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research into quantifying the uncertainty in the process-structure-property-surface (PSPS) relationship for additive manufacturing of Inconel 718 parts. The primary objective is to leverage uncertainty quantification (UQ) and machine learning (ML) frameworks to analyze microstructure and surface topography data, and derive data-driven models that...