Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
1809 The University of Texas at El Paso (143697)
Principal Investigator: Roberts,Robert Christopher
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 576,549
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 8/1/22 - 7/31/23
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Electrical & Computer Engineer
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Electrical & Computer Engineer
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Two Photon Polymerization 3D Nanofabrication System for Interdisciplinary Applications including Energy Storage, Photonics, Sensors, and Biomedical Structures
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
ARMY RESEARCH OFFICE
CFDA Link: DOD
12.630
Program Title:
Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering
CFDA Linked: Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering
Note:
An interdisciplinary team of 11 researchers from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is seeking to procure a two-photon polymerization (2PP) 3D printer, to enable nanoscale manufacturing that can expand innovative research, enhance student training, and better address DoD research and needs for the upcoming decade. While conventional additive manufacturing (AM) processes allows printing of intricate architectures down to about 50?m layer thicknesses, the two-photon polymerization (2PP) 3D printing technique enables fabrication of nanoscale architectures thanks to its ultrashort laser pulses per-formed within a photopolymerizable resin. This resolution enables new areas of research currently not possible with AM at UTEP, and seeks to address the emerging and future needs of the Department of Defense (DoD). 2PP has recently been employed in biomedical (tissue engineering, drug delivery, medical implants), photonics, robotics, and electronics (MEMS & sensors) fields, demonstrating its applicability to a wide array of research disciplines, enabling it to offer new capabilities to a multitude of researchers at UTEP, as well as to collaborators worldwide. The University of Texas at El Paso is an R1 national Research University with a majority Hispanic student population in the University of Texas System; UTEP maintains a strong commitment to providing access, opportunity and excellence to students in the El Paso region at the far western tip of Texas. The acquisition of this system, compliments existing strengths and capabilities at the university, while filling a much needed nanofabrication capability that will better allow researchers to advance the cutting edge, while training and inspiring future generations of STEM experts.
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