Project Grant W911NF1010091

The Department of Energy Office of Science has awarded Powdermet Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, a $199,985 project grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support research and development on rapid net shape fabrication of complex shapes. The project will run from July 10, 2023 to July 9, 2024. Powdermet Inc. is a company that specializes in agile materials development and has previously received federal contract awards and grants from agencies like the...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $194,359 will fund research at the University of Notre Dame and the University of South Carolina under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to advance fundamental understanding of piezoelectric stimulated plasma sources. Through combined modeling and experimental efforts over a three-year period ending May 2025, the researchers will develop a new multi-physics modeling framework to resolve both the solid phase...

This $603,512 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of novel additive manufacturing techniques for complex structural ceramics. Funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the five-year award to the University of Iowa aims to mature a powder bed ceramic additive manufacturing process assisted by water-based inks, layerwise uniaxial compression, and temperate heating for selective particle fusion. By employing selectively deposited water-based inks followed by...

This $309,563 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of California Irvine to develop new methodologies for isolating the effects of electric fields on sintering ceramic materials. The grant period runs from February 1, 2022 through February 28, 2025. Under the award, the University of California Irvine will conduct experiments using in situ laser heating and transmission electron microscopy-based nanomechanical testing methods. This work aims to quantify...

This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to develop a process that uses sound energy and material stress to precisely cut and lift thin layers of gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor material from a wafer, enabling the wafer to be reused multiple times. The project, awarded to Crystal Sonic Inc., a for-profit company based in Phoenix, Arizona, seeks to significantly reduce...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $2,328,897 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a Multiscale Porous High-Temperature Heat Exchanger Using Ceramic Co-Extrusion. The goal of the project is to design a novel ceramic heat exchanger capable of operating over 1,200°C for aerospace applications. MIT will work with sub-awardees General Electric Company and Purdue University to develop a high...

The University of Colorado, Boulder was awarded a $1,050,000 Project Grant from the Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to conduct research on "Phononic Subsurfaces and Porous Metasurfaces for the Control of Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Flows". The research aims to establish an understanding and framework for passive manipulation of hypersonic flow and shock wave interactions using elastic metamaterial-based phononic subsurfaces...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $305,000 to Stellar Engiine, a small business located in Los Altos, CA, to advance plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) technology for semiconductor manufacturing. The key objectives are to: 1) Characterize an array of micro-plasma dielectric barrier discharge applicators powered by nanosecond-scale high voltage pulses to...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $206,300 Project Grant to Continuum Dynamics Inc., a small business based in Trenton, New Jersey, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant supports the development of a "HIGH PERFORMANCE COLD SPRAY NOZZLE DESIGN USING COMPRESSED AIR FOR REPAIR OF NUCLEAR COMPONENTS." This research and development project aims to advance cold spray technology, a process that uses compressed gas to deposit...

This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research by a team of U.S. and Israeli collaborators on a new type of electrostriction effect in ceramic materials. The key objectives are to: (1) obtain fundamental descriptors of the non-classical electrostriction effect driven by dynamic elastic dipoles, (2) provide a basis for theoretical modeling of this...