April 16, 2021

3:00 PM (EST)
Session Three: Multifunctional Nanocomposites

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Hiring Composite Technician II

Seeking an experienced composite technician to prioritize and execute a variety of complex technical laboratory duties with emphasis on performing manufacturing operations.

Student Achievement Day

UD-CCM considers it important to recognize the success of its students because the knowledge gained at UD-CCM furthers the scientific inquiry and technological advances in composites all over the world.

For a list of this year's winners please follow the below link.

TuFF Technology is Taking Off

This core technology to revolutionize high-speed composites manufacturing to enable the flying taxis of the future, repair our nation’s infrastructure and improve manufacturing capabilities.

Additive Manufacturing at UD-CCM

CCM Assoc. Director & ECE Prof. Mark Mirotznik and alum Soumitra Biswas devised a way to make a novel lens using additive manufacturing, a group of technologies designed to build #3D objects by laying down layer after layer of material.

36th Annual ASC Conference

Virtual Conference Dates:
September 19-21, 2021

Composites Ingenuity Taking on Challenges in Environment-Energy-Economy

UD-CCM receives $2.7M NASA award

The collaborative xEMU spacesuit program will design, manufacture, and test composite components, as well as, develop impact and damage resistant lightweight composite designs and fabricate flight quality composite hardware for verification testing.

Watch SAMPE 2020 Virtual Awards Ceremony

UD-CCM team accepts Delmonte Award (9:20). Prof. Kun Fu, UD-CCM joint faculty of Mechanical Engineering and CCM-MSEG alumna Dr. Danning Zhang, accept the 2020 Young Professionals Emerging Leadership Award (23:14)

Do you have a PhD in engineering and authorized to work in the U.S.?

The University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials is hiring postdoctoral researchers with expertise in any one of the Center’s research areas.

$13.6M received from Army Research Lab

Program to create new composite materials, processing & manufacturing methods and/or use existing materials & manufacturing methods in novel ways to achieve new levels of lightweight, affordable, durable & multi-functional composites

U.S. Dept. of Energy awards UD-CCM $2.5M

UD-CCM project “Circular Economy of Composites enabled by TUFF Technology” selected to tackle challenges in plastic waste - Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills.

Additive Manufacturing at UD-CCM

Services for our Manufacturing and Composites Industry Partners: process development and optimization, materials development & characterization, mechanical & impact testing and product design & development.

Materials in Extreme Dynamic Environments Awards UD-CCM $1.9M for 2020-2021

NASA-ULI Awards UD-CCM $5.9M

Using newly developed TuFF material to address technology barriers in manufacturing of complex geometry composite parts for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and commercial air platforms, meeting aerospace performance at automotive-like production rates, and to transition technology to our industrial partner followed the US industrial by base.

UD-CCM wins $5.9M ARPA-e program

UD-CCM research teams have created the “TuFF internal WRAP for Rapid Pipeline Repair” (TuFF iWRAP) program, establishing a novel composite material feedstock and robotic placement process to fabricate stand-alone structural pipe within existing pipelines.

UD-CCM partners with Mikrosam

Great things happening in Automated Composite Manufacturing at the University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials! We’ve selected Mikrosam & their US representative Composite Automation LLC to deliver an integrated ATP machine for automatic placement of dry, thermoset and thermoplastic tape.

TuFF Material

World’s strongest short fiber composite material for metal replacement achieves aerospace properties, metal-like formability in zero-waste, fiber-to-parts pilot plant.