Topic: Advanced Manufacturing
Rapid Design, Development and Deployment of Materials for Extreme Environments
The availability of low cost, durable metal alloys is a foundational requirement for achieving many of the Nation’s targets for affordable, efficient power production. This need for high-performance alloys is particularly manifest as an enabler [...]
Thousand-fold speedup of discrete-particle-based computer-aided reactor design and scale-up
Particulate matter is the second most manipulated material in industry after water and has been observed and studied by scientists and engineers since the earliest of human civilization. In fact, we commonly distinguish between the [...]
Architected Microlattice Materials by Self-Propagating Waveguide Processing
HRL Laboratories has developed a platform technology to rapidly and scalably manufacture architected lattice materials based on polymers, metals, and ceramics suitable for a variety of applications. Architected materials with periodic cellular structure exhibit unprecedented [...]
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy of Silicon Carbide Nanowires
Silicon carbide is a wide band-gap semiconductor material with many superior properties, such as high electron mobility, high thermal conductivity, high mechanical strength, and high radiation resistance. These superior properties make SiC an excellent material [...]
Roll-to-roll application of photocatalytic TiO2 nanoparticles for printed functionality
Saarinen J.J., Valtakari D., Bollström R., Stepien M., Haapanen J., Mäkelä J.M., Toivakka M., Abo Akademi University, FI
We present here ultraviolet A (UVA) light controlled photocatalytic activity of roll-to-roll (R2R) deposited TiO2 nanoparticles on paper, board, and plastic films both for controlled wetting and oxygen sensors for modified atmosphere packages (MAPs). It [...]
Nanofabrication with Lanthanum Hexaboride (LaB6) for Nanoscale Vacuum Electronics
We present the first nano- and microfabrication of vacuum microelectronic components incorporating lanthanum hexaboride (LaB6), a refractory low work function material with high electron emissivity. We design novel fabrication processes which yield ultra-low fill factor [...]
Advances in Magnetohydrodynamic Molten Metal Jet Printing
Vader S., Vader Z., Vader S., Vader Z., Karampelas I.H., Furlani E.P., University at Buffalo (SUNY), US
At present, most metal 3D printing applications involve deposited metal powder sintering or melting under the influence of an external energy source such as a laser (e.g. Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) [1] and Direct Metal [...]
Formulation, characterization and applications of titanium dioxide, polyoxometalates and silver nanocomposites
In the recent past, Titanium dioxide (TiO2), polyoxometalates (POMs) and silver (Ag) based nanomaterials have been employed for various biological and industrial applications. TiO2 possesses excellent photocatalytic activity; POMs are keggin ions with exceptional biomedical [...]