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The goal for this Phase I research is to develop a stretchable dielectric ink that can be used for flexible applications. Printing electronics is a new and quickly growing alternative to traditionally manufactured electronics. Flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) is a novel approach to electronic circuit manufacturing that aims to combine the best of printed and conventional electronics. FHE devices ...

Exum Instruments’ Massbox is a single analytical instrument that offers rapid, high-sensitivity measurements of additive manufacturing (AM) feedstock powders and printed parts. Determining chemical composition for any manufactured material is critical to understanding and predicting a part’s performance. Current methods of chemical characterization are difficult and time-consuming, requiring m ...

Filtering airborne infectious particles from indoor air is a critical element in controlling the spread of disease during COVID and future pandemics that are transmitted through the air. The aim of this proposed research from Ratiocinative Engineering Services, LLC is to develop a testbed that will lead to more accessible and robust quality control testing of air filtration and ventilation systems ...

The ability to quickly test materials during new technology development would provide actionable insight that would significantly reduce materials and device design iterations and accelerate time-to-market. However, conventional characterization and test methods are increasingly ineffective when applied to structures less than 100 nanometers, causing challenges across R&D, process control, and fai ...

There is tremendous potential to manufacture printed electronics in a more sustainable, flexible, faster, and less costly way. However, innovations in materials have been required for full scale manufacturing. In their successful Phase I, ChemCubed (C3) developed a nanocomposite dielectric with electrical and thermal properties similar to those of FR4 boards currently used in PCB manufacturing. In ...

Poseidon Systems, LLC is seeking the support of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for development of a portable grease sampling system. Under this effort, Poseidon and partners will develop and test an initial version of the system. The system will interrogate the manually collected grease sample with an adapted FerroQ ferrous metal debris monitoring sensor, plus other key meas ...

Characterizing the chemical components of additive manufacturing feedstock powders determines the final parts’ material properties and performance. Currently, feedstock chemical characterization involves multiple analytical techniques and industry standards. Although traditional spectrometry measures both the material’s major and residual constituents, it requires a highly trained analytical c ...

There is tremendous potential to manufacture printed electronics in a more sustainable, flexible, faster, and less costly way. Printing electronics results in less contaminated water from copper etching, the ability to change designs immediately on the production line, and less labor. Yet, despite encouraging prior Proof of Concept (POC) work, advances in materials are required for scalable manufa ...

The ability to quickly test materials during new technology development would provide actionable insight that would significantly reduce materials and device design iterations and accelerate time-to-market by up to three months. However, conventional characterization and test methods are increasingly ineffective when applied to structures less than 100 nanometers, causing challenges across R&D, pr ...

We will develop a series of object manipulation primitives to pick up and assemble standard mechanical parts such as screws, gears and pulleys that can be configured without any programming skills. Building up on a smart robotic gripper, 3D perception and machine learning algorithms, we will design a graphical user interface that allows an user to label arbitrary 3D objects, identify assembly poin ...