Project Grant 80NSSC19K1564

Purdue University received a $452,928 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation to develop hierarchical design and additive manufacturing techniques for metallic programmable metamaterials. The goal of the research is to apply laser powder bed fusion to fabricate metallic programmable mechanical metamaterials and understand the influence of hierarchical design and additive manufacturing processes on microstructures,...

This $392,098 National Science Foundation award under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program will fund research to establish new theoretical foundations for active metamaterial transmission lines (MTLs) that can control the amplitude and phase of electromagnetic waves. The goal is to develop transformative transmission line technology to address increasing demands for enhanced data capacity, higher spatial resolution, multi-functionality, and smaller circuit and system dimensions in microwave...

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...

Grant Award Summary Hofstra University received a $199,109 Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (CFDA 47.041) for the project "Optimizing Switch-Based Metamaterials Using Machine Learning to Enhance Phased Array Performance." The two-year project, awarded October 1, 2025 and concluding September 30, 2027, delivers computational optimization methodologies and artificial intelligence...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) totaling $344,918 will establish a collaborative research program at Florida International University (FIU) to develop advanced data-driven approaches for additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing of materials with locally tunable electrical and mechanical properties. The research aims to create new polymer resin formulations for digital light processing (DLP) 3D printing that can...

Foli Research, LLC received a $205,494 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support additive manufacturing of high frequency transformers using coherent wire placement. The award period ran from June 28, 2021 through March 27, 2022. Under this funding, Foli Research developed techniques for the additive manufacturing of high frequency transformers through a process of coherent wire placement,...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $567,121 Project Grant to Michigan State University under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant funds fundamental research to develop a new metal additive manufacturing process using light projection of mixtures of photopolymer and metal powder. Rather than point-by-point printing, the proposed process would use digital light projection to cure an entire layer of photopolymer mixed with metal powder. This could enable high-speed...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to support research that develops a novel approach to metamaterials engineering and manufacturing for emerging optoelectronics. The project at the University of Michigan will utilize a combination of advanced manufacturing tools and focused-ion-beam-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy to pattern and integrate high-purity non-precious metals with high-quality semiconductors. The...

This $404,595 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program grant, awarded to the University of Delaware on March 1, 2024, supports research to enhance multi-material additive manufacturing (3D printing) through the use of advective assembly techniques. The project aims to develop modular 3D printing nozzles capable of rapidly structuring and depositing multi-material composites at higher resolution and volumetric throughput than conventional methods. This could enable new applications...

This $399,161 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Texas at Austin to develop new algorithms and simulations for co-designing the geometry and fabrication plans for direct-ink writing 3D printing. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), this three-year award will transform additive manufacturing design tools by allowing users to specify an object's desired mechanical behavior and automatically generate...