Project Grant 80NSSC19K1551

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...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund the development of new metallic materials for high-temperature applications critical to improving the efficiency of jet engines and turbines. The grant recipient, The Ohio State University, will work with collaborators at NASA Glenn Research Center, GE Aerospace, and the Air Force Research Laboratory to utilize a novel additive manufacturing approach to create oxide dispersion...

The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) received a $582,358 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the NSF Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The award will support fundamental research at UTA from May 1, 2023 through April 30, 2028 related to developing a new hybrid layerwise rolling and sealing technique for laser powder-bed fusion manufacturing of tungsten parts. The research aims to generate...

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...

SBIR Phase I: Acoustic Molding Technology for Metal Additive Manufacturing Ultrasonium Inc. received a $305,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), effective October 1, 2025, through March 31, 2026, to develop and validate acoustic molding technology for metal additive manufacturing. The project will investigate the feasibility of using ultrasonic phased arrays to...

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...

Grant Award Summary The University of Tennessee received a $175,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2026. This collaborative research project aims to develop crack-free additive manufacturing (AM) of tungsten using ultrashort pulsed (femtosecond) lasers, addressing a critical challenge in advanced manufacturing where...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation provides $1,177,594 to support research titled "DMREF/GOALI/COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: PHYSICS-INFORMED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR PARALLEL DESIGN OF METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES AND THEIR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING." The funding period is from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2025. The research is being conducted under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to...

This $217,041 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University to develop acoustic holography-enabled additive manufacturing of high-resolution multifunctional composites. The two-year award under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program will conduct fundamental research to integrate acoustic holography and digital light processing for photo polymerization printing. This will allow for precise spatial control of embedded...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research by Arizona State University (ASU) to enable additive manufacturing of high-quality fiber-reinforced polymer composites through in-situ thermal polymerization of the matrix resin. The total award amount is $647,188 with a project period from November 1, 2024 to April 30, 2028. The research aims to develop a new composite manufacturing platform that uses a remote stimulus...