UW-Madison innovators have designed a continuous helical 3D metal printer with an unbounded rotating powder volume. In one embodiment, the powder bed system exists as a torus, where powder is deposite...
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Composite materials are used in the aerospace, automotive, marine and defense industries because of their enhanced specific mechanical properties and functionality. One category of composite materials...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a high throughput powder spreadability testing system that can test powder spreadability at multiple layer thicknesses, multiple substrate materials, multiple bla...
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Real-time measurement of the printed line of an aerosol jet printer provides a good indication of whether the printing process is correctly configured. However, the complexity of the printing process...
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Typically, bidirectional switching elements are fabricated using two FET devices, for example, arranged in series with opposite polarities, each device shunted by a diode to steer current to the prope...
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Quantum dots are nanometer-sized semiconductors with optical properties that result from a combination of their small size and quantum mechanical effects. In one important application, quantum dots ma...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed an optical sensor for monitoring of laser-based manufacturing processes such as 3D printing. The device uses wavelength-swept lasers tuned across the absorption ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed an alloy of chromium, molybdenum and aluminum that has shown survivability up to 1600 degrees C, as well as over exposure times of 120 hours through multiple ther...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed cold-sprayed tantalum coatings configured to absorb a hydrogen species from an atmosphere, e.g., a gaseous region surrounding a plasma. The technology can be app...
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The need for corrosion-resistant materials is present throughout automotive, aerospace, and electronics manufacturing as well as many other metal and polymer manufacturing industries. Electrodepositio...
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UW researchers have discovered methods for forming metal alloys, including refractory intermetallic alloys, and ceramic composites using reactive synthesis during additive manufacturing (AM). In the A...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed advanced fuel ignition technologies for use in flexible and fuel agnostic combustion engines. The technology employs a secondary "pilot" injector directing a fuel...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a system and method for evaluating susceptibility of hot cracking in metal additive manufacturing. A tensile test-like substrate is pulled by a tensile test machi...
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UW-Madison researchers have devised a new computational finite element method to improve the accuracy of finite element analysis in the presence of concave, i.e., tangled, quadrilateral elements. The...
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A UW researcher has developed a new power tether for aerial devices, such as balloons or drones, that uses as few as one conductor, providing a ground return by capacitive coupling between the aerial ...
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UW-Madison researchers have discovered a new method to create pore-free metal powders for additive manufacturing applications. This is accomplished by removing the pores that are introduced during the...
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A solvent-less method for photo-redox mediated MF-ROMP that can be used to produce industrially relevant polymers. Recognizing that fluorinated alcohols have several comparable characteristics to ROMP...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a process for producing core-shell metal matrix nanocomposite wire for directed energy deposition (DED) additive manufacturing. The procedure involves first produ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a compression ignition engine system that allows use of hydrous fuels, in particular hydrous biofuels, with high water content ( e.g., 20-85% water). The hydrous ...
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UW researchers have developed a novel design for the spreader component of powder bed-based additive manufacturing techniques, using a core-shell concept with low friction materials. The spreader is c...
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UW Madison researchers have developed a switching circuit for a balanced current source inverter (CSI). The balanced CSIs utilize wide-bandgap semiconductors to address electromagnetic interference (E...
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UW researchers have developed a new 3D printing technique for fabrication of metal foams with pore patterns. Unlike traditional manufacturing techniques used for fabrication of metal foams, this new m...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a new sustainable process to manufacture calcium hydroxide as a way to reduce the CO2 emissions associated with cement production. This process utilizes a low-tem...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed an improvement to the Fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printing process whereby rotating the nozzle at high speeds causes the polymer melt along the wall to sh...
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UW-Madison researchers have devised a new type of acoustic functional material that can be assembled as wall panels to achieve indoor sound shaping functions such as acoustic reflected wave steering, ...
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