SBIR Phase I: Bio-Based Design of Structural Ceramics

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将确定具有理想特性和性能标准的材料。 由于全球联盟的迅速变化，通信技术、飞行运输、医疗部件和军事战略的快速发展正在推动对材料的需求超出目前的能力。 该项目将使用先进的3D制造技术来生产模仿生物壳结构的创新材料。 这项技术的商业和更广泛的影响可能导致具有独特性能的商业产品。 该项目将扩大数字化和快速制造的能力，这两个领域是该国必须推进的，如果该国要保持在全球制造业中的任何形式的主导地位。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will identify materials with desirable properties and performance standards. Rapid advances in communication technology, flight-based transportation, medical components and military strategy due to rapidly changing global alliances is pushing a need for materials that goes beyond current capabilities. This project will use advanced 3D fabrication techniques to produce innovative materials that mimic bio-based shell structures. The commercial and broader impacts of this technology could lead to a commercial product with unique properties. The project will expand the capabilities of digital and rapid manufacturing, two areas that this country must push forward in, if the country is to maintain any sort of dominance in worldwide manufacturing.