Funding

2010-2021

2021-2026NSF Center on Future of Manufacturing: MADE-PUBLIC with U Chicago and Northwestern U.
2020-2021DOE Advanced Manufacturing Office - Food waste to Bioplastics - processing for circular economy.
2019-2023Multi-University Research Initiative: AFOSR funded research center with five other Universities.
2018-2022ARPA-E Design of High-Entropy Alloys.
2018-2021AFOSR Design on Insensitive Composites for Energetics and Propellant Applications.
2017-2021DOD/SERDP Atmospheric Plasma-based Coating for Embedding of Nanoscale Chemistry on Surfaces for DoD Manufacturing.
2015-2017Department of Energy/NETL Development of a Novel Biphasic CO2 Absorption Process with Multiple Stages of Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation for Post-Combustion Carbon Capture.

Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute - From Art-to-Part: Additive Manufacturing Simulations.
2015-2016Honda R&D Americas Characterization of the Mechanisms of Interfacial Degradation, Defect Accumulation and Failure of PCG during Weathering.
2015Boeing Research and Technology Mesoscale paint spray simulation development.
2014-2018DoD/US Army Research Laboratory A Diffusion-Dissolution-Segregation Model for Predictive Design of Corrosion Resistant Magnesium Alloys.
2013-2015Ford Motors University Research Program Multiscale simulation of atomization of charged liquid jets.

Department of Energy/EERE A Systematic Multiscale Modeling and Experimental Approach to Protect Grain Boundaries in Magnesium Alloys from Corrosion.
2013Boeing Research and Technology Multiscale modeling of corrosion – role of intermetallic precipitates from first-principles.

Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation - Manufacturing carbon-reinforced composite parts for mission-critical aerospace applications.

Boeing Research and Technology Modeling anti-icing coatings and paints.
2012-2017Dept of Defense/DTRA - Initiation and post-detonation kinetics in aluminized high explosives.
2012Boeing Research and Technology Computational Methods for Advanced Coatings Technologies.

Avista Utilities Bio-based biodegradable hydraulic fluids – Design, scale-up and Commercialization.

Avista Utilities Innovative Chemical Detection Instrument.

Triumph Composite Systems - Preliminary process control for composite parts – dependence on curing kinetics.
2011Boeing Research and Technology Multiscale computational modeling guided design and fabrication of anti-corrosion, anti-icing, and defect-free paint surfaces for aerospace applications.

Boeing Research and Technology Modeling Adhesion Characterization and Impurity Effects of Epoxy Surfaces.
2010DOD/Army Research Laboratory Rational Design of Corrosion Prevention Strategies.