Magneto is LIVE in 3D!

The group (Elaine, Luc, Olivia Schuler) has built a metal laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) system. Quan has been performing experiments on copper in 2D but today the printer is now live in 3D!

Elaine, Luc, and Quan printed our first 3D structure today, a humble stainless steel cube!

Additional thanks to Phil DePond (Advanced Manufacturing Lab at LLNL) and Jason Pastor ( MEAM machine shop at Penn). Elaine built Magneto, the software that controls the printer (also dubbed Magneto) completely from scratch in C#.

Updates

We were a bit slow to updated the website over the past year or so. But here are some highlights:

September 2024 | We publish the first paper from the lab “High absorptivity nanotextured powders for additive manufacturing” in Science Advances 

August 2024 | Quan Vo joins the group as a master student to work

August 2024 | Stephen Ching joins the group as a graduate student

Summer 2024 | Luc Capaldi receives Spring 2024 Outstanding TA Award!

Summer 2024 | Mistica and Alexander pass their BE qualifying exams!

Summer 2024 | The group goes hiking at Wissahickon

Summer 2024 | Sophie Li, Kayla Magruder, and Ariel Coff join the group as summer interns/scholars. It was a busy summer.

May 2024 | Ottman receives the NSF CAREER Award

January 2024 | Mistica and Alexander join the group as graduate students

November 2023 | Riti and Kailin win poster awards at Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders (PCMD) Symposium

October 2023 | Riti wins 3rd place poster at 2023 SES Annual Technical Meeting

June 2023 | Successful Beamline Run at Brookhaven 18ID

Summer 2023 |Trinity Chandler-Rutling and Alexander Mejia join the group as summer interns

May 2023 | Riti and Luc pass their MEAM qualifying exams!

Spring 2023 | Elaine joins the group as a master student

February 2023 | Kailin joins the group as a postdoc