Project Grant N000142512284

This NSF Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) project grant, awarded to Iowa State University, provides $276,827 to develop a novel cyberinfrastructure for designing and characterizing printable multifunctional materials. Key products and services being delivered include: A universal, parallelized in silico voxelized microstructure generator to produce datasets of material morphologies with distinct properties and manufacturability Numerical methods for efficient characterization of...

This $1,481,906 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to discover and develop new multi-principal-element hexagonal-close-packed structural alloys using advanced computational materials science and additive manufacturing methods. The University of California, Berkeley is the awardee, with the State of California Controllers Office serving as the parent organization. The project aims to rapidly...

Ic3D, Inc. was awarded a $1.6 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology to design and demonstrate a pilot regional quality control center that provides metrology testing services to small and mid-sized additive manufacturing companies producing thermoplastic and resin additively manufactured parts. The award, made under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620), will support Ic3D to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $2,000 to fund a 2-day workshop focused on the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI). The workshop will bring together MGI grantees and program managers from various federal agencies, including the NSF, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and National Institute of Standards and Technology. The goal is to assess the current...

This $380,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education held at the University of Michigan from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The Summer School trains graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professors in computational and data science approaches for materials research and education to expand educational opportunities in computational...

This $155,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) supports fundamental research at Iowa State University to understand how nanoparticle self-assembly can be integrated into laser/powder-based additive manufacturing (AM) of multimodal metallic materials. The overall goal is to gain a deeper understanding of the mechanisms governing nanoparticle self-assembly behavior, microstructure evolution, and property enhancements in AM of...

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 $700,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support The Johns Hopkins University's research on amorphous metal additive manufacturing. The project aims to develop simulation-informed models and computational tools to enable design of additively manufactured amorphous metals with desired strength and toughness properties. This will involve using machine learning to quantify structural order parameters...

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 $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering (NSF OISE) will support an international research experience program linking Michigan State University students with the IMDEA Materials Institute in Madrid, Spain. Over the three-year period from June 2022 to May 2025, the program will provide 19 MSU students the opportunity to engage in collaborative research on grain boundary formation and evolution in hexagonal and body centered...