Enabling Materials
Expanding AM’s materials horizon. From shape memory alloys to biocompatible polymers, we develop the processing of the most advanced material classes.
Our Enabling Materials activity establishes us as the go-to place for developing virtually any material system for additive manufacturing. By focusing on processing innovations, we achieve reliable printability, property tuning, and defect control in material classes far beyond conventional feedstocks. Current developments include shape memory alloys for adaptive structures, high-stiffness metal matrix composites for lightweight applications, and biocompatible UV-curable polymers. Through advancing the processing of such demanding systems, we expand the AM materials palette and unlock new opportunities in space technologies, particle physics, life sciences, and medical applications.
