CURRENT
PROJECTS
Cyber-Enabled Direct Digital Manufacturing of Gas Turbine
Engine Hot-section Components
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Combinatorial High-Throughput Synthesis and Screening of
Advanced Metallic Materials for Additive Manufacturing
Sponsor: United Technologies
Computational Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of
Scaffolds for Bone and Cartilage Tissue Engineering with
Predictable Mechanical and Transport Properties
Large-Area Laser Interference Patterning and Growth of
Nanostructures
Collaborators: Prof. Zhong Lin Wang (Materials Science and
Engineering, Georgia Tech), Prof. C.P. Wong (Materials
Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech), Prof. R.D. Dupuis
(Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech).
COMPLETED PROJECTS
Cyber-Enabled
Direct Digital Manufacturing of Heterogeneous
Multifunctional Components (DDM of HMCs)
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Direct Digital
Manufacturing of Airfoils
Sponsor: DARPA
Collaborators:
Prof. John Halloran (University of Michigan-Ann
Arbor)
Freeform Fabrication of Multifunctional Nanocomposites via
Selective Laser Sintering
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Collaborators: Prof. Kyriaki Kalaitzidou (Mechanical
Engineering, Georgia Tech)
Computational Design, Fabrication and Characterization of
Microarchitectured Solid Oxide Fuel Cells with Improved
Energy Efficiency
Collaborators: Prof. Meilin Liu (Materials Science and
Engineering, Georgia Tech)
Scanning Laser Epitaxy of Single-Crystal Nickel Superalloys
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
High-Power Fiber Laser for Direct Digital Manufacturing
Sponsor: Department of Defense DURIP/ONR
Direct Digital
Laser Manufacturing of Nickel Superalloy Single Crystal
Components
Sponsor: Naval Research Laboratory
Direct Laser Manufacturing of High Temperature Oxidation
and Rub Resistant Tip Coatings
Sponsor: Honeywell Corporation
Functionalized Micro/Nano-structured Polymeric Materials
via Laser Treatment
Sponsor: Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Development of Parallel Direct-Write Laser Freeform
Manufacturing
Sponsor: Department of Defense DURIP/ONR
CAREER: Solid Freeform Fabrication of
Heterogeneous Multifunctional Devices
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Functionally Graded Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
NER: Nanofabrication using Near-field Nano-optical Laser
Processing
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Integrated Design and Fabrication of Multimaterial
Compliant Systems Using Solid Freeform Fabrication
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
