The Hildreth Research Group focuses on phenomena involved in nanometer to centimeter scale additive manufacturing technologies.  Through fundamental studies on mass transport, heat transfer, chemical kinetics, electrohydrodynamics, and corrosion, we are advancing the state-of-the-art for printed electronics and microfluidics; bringing dissolvable supports to 3D printed metals; and are reducing silver consumption in photovoltaic cells by 90%.

Collin’s First Paper on Printing Amorphous Metals Using Reactive Inks!
Congratulations to Collin for publishing his first, first-author paper.  Collin worked extremely hard on this paper.  It was supposed to be a simple paper showing how to print iron using an iron-carbonyl reactive ink and it morphed into an amazing paper showing that...
New Publication on Decarburizing Sensitized and Etched Stainless Steels
Stephanie contributed to a great paper by our collaborators at University of Pittsburg (Wei Xiong's group).  This paper is titled A Design Strategy for Surface Modification and Decarburization to Achieve Enhanced Mechanical Properties in Additively Manufactured...
New Publication on Importance of Suppressing Complexing Agent Evaporation
Steven's latest silver reactive ink paper is an important one.  Published in ACS Applied Electronic Materials, Improving the Density and Electrical Properties of Self-Reducing Reactive Silver Inks by Suppressing Complexing Agent Evaporation (doi:...
New Publication Showing Improved Fatigue Performance of Sensitized and Etched Stainless Steel
Stephanie just published another paper on our Self-Terminating Etching Process (STEP).  Published in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, Fatigue and Corrosion Evaluation of L-PBF 316L Stainless Steel Having Undergone a Self-Terminating Etching Process for Surface...
New Publication Showing 82% Reduction in Silver Consumption using Reactive Silver Inks
We have a new publication from our collaboration with Mariana Bertoni's group at Arizona State University. Reactive Silver Inks: A Path to Solar Cells with 82% less Silver was published in Energy & Environmental Science (doi: 10.1039/d4ee00020j).  Michael...