This Year’s Manufacturing Month is More Than Just a Bunch of Hocus Pocus 🎃
October is a big month for us—in fact, you could even that say we go a bit... batty over it. 🦇 Not only is it Manufacturing Month, but this month marks our office’s second birthday!
As the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) enters its third year of operation, we are leaning into our role as problem solvers innovating advanced manufacturing to deliver technologies and systems for the energy system of tomorrow.
Read more about the progress AMMTO has made over the past two years to inspire the next generation of advanced manufacturing innovation.
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Save the Date! 📅 Connect with AMMTO Performers and Provide Input for Future Direction
Join the AMMTO for a Stakeholder Listening Session from December 10-11, 2024 at Crowne Plaza Dulles Airport in VA. This event will feature discussions of AMMTO’s strategy, guided stakeholder feedback sessions, and posters by performers. Come mingle with the community and share your ideas! Registration information coming soon.
Share Your Feedback on the EERE Draft Strategic Framework on Circularity for Secure and Sustainable Products and Materials
A circular economy can be a more resilient, environmentally sustainable, and energy efficient alternative to our current linear economy, where materials are extracted, manufactured, used, and discarded. To improve supply chain security, reduce landfill waste, and decrease the lifetime energy cost and emissions of products across the economy, we can re-manufacture and reuse end-of-life products instead of leaving them for landfills.
To help us prioritize our R&D investments in this space, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is seeking your input (request for information) on its draft strategic framework on Circularity for Secure and Sustainable Products and Materials. Your feedback will help identify opportunities and challenges to use circularity to decarbonize industry, secure supply chains, benefit communities, and create jobs as we accelerate the transition toward a circular economy.
DOE To Release Funding for High-Performance Computing
DOE’s High-Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) initiative—sponsored by AMMTO, the Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO), and the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management—will issue a new funding opportunity later this fall. Included in this opportunity is HPC4EI’s High-Performance Computing for Manufacturing program, primarily sponsored by AMMTO. Under this program, competitively selected projects apply modeling, simulation, and data analysis to industrial processes and products to lower production costs, improve performance, and shorten the time to market. Detailed topics coming soon!
2024 Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program Fellows LEEP To D.C. for Start of Program 🦅
Earlier this month, DOE’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP), managed by AMMTO, welcomed its 2024 cohort to DOE headquarters in Washington, D.C. to kick off the next round of the two-year fellowship. The fellows will leverage resources from DOE and its national laboratories to develop their early-stage clean energy startups and move them closer to the market
During the two-day event, the fellows met with the respective DOE offices that fund them and witnessed an informative fireside chat between AMMTO Director Christopher Saldaña and LEEP alumni. The fellows also pitched their innovations during an invigorating lightning round session, and heard from other DOE-funded programs including Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs and American Made Network.
Congratulations to the 2024 LEEP cohort! We look forward to your future accomplishments.
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Four AMMTO-Powered Groups Bring the Heat to Manufacturing Technology Show
Small but Powerful: Could Nanotechnology Help Address the Climate Crisis?
Happy belated Nanotechnology Day! Nanotechnology is the manipulation and manufacturing of materials and devices on the scale of atoms or small groups of atoms. In the United States, Nanotechnology Day is celebrated on October 9 as a wink and nod to the nanometer length scale—a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, or 10-9 meters. To celebrate, let’s highlight some recent nano-news!
- In a recently published edition of Nature Nanotechnology, a diverse group of experts from across the U.S. government—including AMMTO technology manager Tina Kaarsberg—collaborated to outline how nanotechnology can help accelerate progress toward addressing the climate crisis.
- AMMTO’s Conductivity-enhanced materials for Affordable, Breakthrough, Leapfrog Electric and thermal applications (CABLE) posted award winning images of MXenes—a promising (and beautiful) class of new two-dimensional materials from one of its newest awardees at Argonne National Laboratory.
- AMMTO’s Microelectronics Energy Efficiency Scaling for 2 Decades (EES2) Initiative posted a video of its Nano Day Pledge Signing Ceremony for its five newest participants at National Nanotechnology Day | National Nanotechnology Initiative.
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Apply for Grants To Fund Research on Circular Economy, Smart Manufacturing, and Energy-Efficient Microelectronics
DOE's Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Program is accepting applications for Implementation Grants. AMMTO encourages eligible institutions to apply; the funding opportunity announcement can be found here. The submission deadline for pre-applications is October 30th. AMMTO is especially interested in funding research in pursuit of the circular economy, smart manufacturing, and energy-efficient microelectronics.
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