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Material Extrusion
Material extrusion can produce three-dimensional structures by building up material layer-by-layer. This technique is commonly used by personal and commercial 3D printers. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) Program implements various material extrusion methods for AM. If you would like guidance on additive manufacturing efforts or a chance to use our resources, please explore our various research opportunities, and/or contact us.
Projects
Learn about our material extrusion projects by clicking the plus icon (+) below.
Polymer Additive Manufacturing and Rheology
We develop instrumentation and methodologies for measurement of temperature and stress fields in polymeric materials and their real-time materials responses. We focus on measurements where national needs have been identified, such as plastics recycling and composite curing, and in emerging areas that represent sources of new U.S. manufacturing, such as additive manufacturing. Read more.
- Polymer Material Extrusion
Project Leader: Anthony Kotula - Bioprinting
Project Leader: Anthony Kotula - Dense Suspensions and Thermoset AM
Project Leaders: Anthony Kotula & Jonathan Seppala - Polymer AM for Sheet Metal Forming
Project Leader: Jonathan Seppala
NIST AM publishes research about material extrusion for additive manufacturing. View some of our publications here.
Contacts
Additive Manufacturing Program Coordinator
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(303) 497-5991