Capabilities
Metal Additive Manufacturing
Atlas Multi-nozzle MMJ Machine
The Atlas Multi-nozzle Molten Metal Jetting (MMJ) printer uses an eight-nozzle, drop-on-demand printhead to jet molten metal droplets with high precision, enabling high-throughput production of complex metal components while maintaining fine feature resolution for advanced manufacturing needs. IN THE NEWS
Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies AMBIT Laser DED Machine
The Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies AMBIT Laser DED machine combines laser-directed energy deposition (DED) with CNC machining, enabling the fabrication, repair, and modification of metal components by depositing material precisely where needed and machining features in a single integrated platform. LEARN MORE
Xerox ElemX Machine
The Xerox ElemX liquid metal printer produces metallic parts by jetting molten metal droplets from wire feedstock, enabling rapid, safer metal additive manufacturing without metal powders, debinding, or sintering, and supporting on-demand production of functional components. LEARN MORE
Markforged Metal X Machine
The Markforged Metal X fabricates metal parts from metal powder-filled filament, printing near-net-shape components that are subsequently debound and sintered into fully metallic structures, supporting research, rapid prototyping, tooling, and low-volume production of functional metal components. LEARN MORE
ADDiTEC FUSiON Laser PBF Machine
The ADDiTEC FUSiON Laser PBF machine fabricates high-density metal components by selectively melting metal powder with a precision laser, enabling production of complex geometries and fine features for research in aerospace, biomedical, energy, and advanced manufacturing applications. LEARN MORE
Composite Additive Manufacturing
Impossible Objects CBAM 25
The Impossible Objects CBAM 25 uses a sheet lamination process to combine carbon fiber or fiberglass sheets with high-performance thermoplastics, enabling production of high-strength, lightweight composite components and supporting the "world's fastest" industrial composite additive manufacturing speeds on the market. LEARN MORE
Voltera V-One PCB Printer
The Voltera V-One PCB Printer enables rapid in-house electronics prototyping by printing conductive traces, dispensing solder paste, drilling holes and vias for double-sided PCBs, and reflowing components, allowing researchers to manufacture and assemble functional printed circuit boards directly from digital designs without reliance on external PCB fabrication services. LEARN MORE
Markforged Mark 2
The Markforged Mark Two uses a dual-nozzle fused filament fabrication process to combine nylon-based polymers with continuous carbon fiber, fiberglass, or Kevlar reinforcement, producing lightweight, high-performance composite parts for functional prototyping and end-use applications. LEARN MORE
BotFactory SV2
The BotFactory SV2 fabricates printed circuit boards by depositing conductive and dielectric materials and dispensing conductive adhesives or solder paste, enabling rapid prototyping of fully functional PCBs in minutes. LEARN MORE
Ceramic Additive Manufacturing
Lithoz CeraFab L30 Machine
The Lithoz CeraFab L30 fabricates complex technical ceramic components by selectively photopolymerizing ceramic-filled slurries, followed by debinding and sintering to produce dense, high-performance parts with fine features and excellent material properties for biomedical, aerospace, energy, and advanced materials research. LEARN MORE
Polymer Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing
Stratasys J750
The Stratasys J750 fabricates full-color, multi-material components by jetting and curing photopolymer droplets layer-by-layer, combining rigid, flexible, transparent, and multi-colored materials to produce highly realistic and functionally-graded prototypes with locally controlled mechanical properties, textures, and appearance. LEARN MORE
The Formlabs Form 4 (Open Materials Edition)
The Formlabs Form 4 (Open Materials) employs masked stereolithography (MSLA) to rapidly produce detailed polymer components, while its open-materials platform enables development and evaluation of novel photopolymer resins for advanced manufacturing, materials, and biomedical research. LEARN MORE
Hyrel 3D printer
The Hyrel 3D printer combines fused filament fabrication with interchangeable dispensing tools for conductive inks, photopolymers, gels, pastes, and other functional materials, enabling multi-material manufacturing, embedded electronics, sensor fabrication, and experimental materials research on a single platform. LEARN MORE
Titan Robotics Cronus
The Titan Robotics Cronus is a large-format extrusion printing system featuring five independent gantries that can print simultaneously, plus a pellet-extrusion toolhead for high-throughput fabrication of large polymer and composite parts using a wide range of engineering materials. LEARN MORE
Prusa XL (5-Head)
The Prusa XL (5-Head) is a large-format fused filament fabrication (FFF) system featuring five independent tool-changing printheads that enable multi-material and multi-color printing with minimal waste, supporting fabrication of complex polymer components using flexible, rigid, soluble-support, and engineering-grade materials in a single build. LEARN MORE
XYZprinting SLS Machine
The XYZprinting SLS Machine at the RIT AMPrint Center uses selective laser sintering to fabricate polymer components from powdered materials, selectively fusing nylon powder in a support-free powder-bed process to produce complex geometries with excellent mechanical properties for functional prototyping, end-use parts, and advanced manufacturing research. LEARN MORE
Formlabs Form 3L
The Formlabs Form 3L fabricates large, high-resolution polymer components using stereolithography (SLA), selectively curing liquid photopolymer resin with a laser to produce complex geometries and fine features for prototyping, biomedical, engineering, and advanced manufacturing research applications. LEARN MORE
Mosaic Element HT8
The Mosaic Element HT8 combines multi-material extrusion with a heated build chamber and high-temperature printhead, enabling fabrication of high-performance polymer and composite components from advanced materials such as PEEK, PEKK, and ULTEM™ for aerospace, biomedical, and industrial applications. LEARN MORE
Functional Printing
IDS NanoJet Aerosol Jet Printing (AJP) system
The IDS NanoJet Aerosol Jet Printing (AJP) system fabricates high-resolution electronic and functional material features by atomizing nanoparticle inks into an aerosol and focusing the mist through a fine nozzle, enabling direct-write deposition of conductive traces, sensors, and printed electronics with printed lines approaching 5 µm. LEARN MORE
The NovaCentrix PulseForge 3300
The NovaCentrix PulseForge 3300 uses high-intensity pulsed photonic processing to rapidly cure, anneal, and sinter printed nanoparticle materials with broadband xenon light, enabling high-temperature processing of conductive, semiconductor, and ceramic inks on heat-sensitive substrates without thermal damage. LEARN MORE
Harper Motorized Proofer Table
The Harper Motorized Proofer Table is used in combination with Harper’s QD Flexo or Gravure print heads. This proofing table allows rapid experimentation with functional nanoparticle inks when printing high resolution circuit patterns, sensors, and other high-resolution electronic and advanced manufacturing applications.
ViscoTec vipro-HEAD 3 HF Progressive Cavity Pump
The ViscoTec vipro-HEAD 3 HF Progressive Cavity Pump is integrated with a 3-axis motion stage and heated bed to allow precise dispensing of functional inks and pastes for applications such as printed circuits and sensors. LEARN MORE
nScrypt 3Dn Direct-Write Extrusion Machine
The nScrypt 3Dn Direct-Write Extrusion system fabricates multi-material structures by precisely dispensing functional inks and nanoparticle pastes through dual micro-extrusion printheads, enabling the direct-write manufacturing of ceramic, conductive, and other advanced material features for printed electronics, sensors, and engineered ceramic components. LEARN MORE
SurfX Atomflo Atmospheric Plasma
The SurfX Atomflo Atmospheric Plasma System generates electrically neutral reactive plasma species that remove contaminants and tailor surface chemistry at atmospheric pressure, enabling enhanced adhesion, printed electronics fabrication, composite bonding, coating deposition, and advanced materials processing. LEARN MORE
Material Characterization
JEOL JSM-IT100LA Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
The JEOL JSM-IT100LA Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) uses a focused electron beam to generate high-magnification images and perform elemental analysis via energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), supporting research in materials characterization, process development, failure analysis, and advanced manufacturing. LEARN MORE
ieT 1920: Precision LCR meter
The IET 1920 Precision LCR Meter provides precision impedance analysis through measurement of capacitance, inductance, resistance, voltage, and current across a wide frequency range, enabling electrical characterization of electronic materials, printed circuits, dielectric structures, and energy storage devices. LEARN MORE
Hirox KH-7700 Digital Microscope
The Hirox KH-7700 Digital Microscope combines high-magnification optical microscopy with automated Z-axis scanning to generate fully focused images, three-dimensional reconstructions, and quantitative measurements of complex surfaces, supporting materials characterization, quality control, failure analysis, and advanced manufacturing research. LEARN MORE
Buehler EcoMet 250 Grinder/Polisher
The Buehler EcoMet 250 Grinder/Polisher performs controlled abrasive grinding and polishing of research specimens, enabling preparation of high-quality cross-sections and polished surfaces for optical microscopy, SEM, EDS, profilometry, failure analysis, and materials characterization. LEARN MORE
The Nanovea ST400 Optical Profilometer
The Nanovea ST400 Optical Profilometer uses high-resolution optical scanning to measure surface roughness, feature dimensions, film thickness, and three-dimensional topography, enabling quantitative characterization of printed materials, coatings, and manufactured components. LEARN MORE
RheoSense microVISC
The RheoSense microVISC measures viscosity and flow behavior of liquids and suspensions using small sample volumes under controlled temperature conditions (400 uL/18-50 C), enabling rapid characterization of nanoparticle inks, photopolymers, ceramic slurries, biological materials, and other formulations. LEARN MORE
Quorum EMS Q150T ES Plus Sputter Coater
The Quorum EMS Q150T ES Plus Sputter Coater prepares samples for electron microscopy by depositing thin conductive metal or carbon coatings under high vacuum, improving imaging quality and reducing charging effects during SEM and EDS analysis of polymers, ceramics, composites, biological specimens, and other non-conductive materials. LEARN MORE
Jandel RM3000+ Four-Point Probe System
The Jandel RM3000+ Four-Point Probe System measures sheet resistance, electrical conductivity, and bulk resistivity of conductive thin films and materials using a precision four-point probe station, supporting characterization of printed electronics, semiconductor materials, conductive coatings, and additively manufactured functional devices. LEARN MORE
Ramé-Hart Model 260 Contact Angle Goniometer/Tensiometer
The Ramé-Hart Model 260 Contact Angle Goniometer/Tensiometer at the RIT AMPrint Center uses optical drop-shape analysis to quantify wettability, surface energy, and surface tension, supporting optimization of nanoparticle inks, photopolymers, coatings, adhesives, ceramics, and other materials used in additive manufacturing and printed electronics. LEARN MORE
Allied TechCut 5 Precision Sectioning Saw
The Allied TechCut 5 Precision Sectioning Saw uses a water-cooled abrasive or diamond cutoff wheel to precisely section metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, electronics, and additively manufactured components with minimal thermal or mechanical damage, enabling preparation of samples for microscopy, metrology, and materials characterization. LEARN MORE
Thermal Processing
Lucifer High-Temperature Sintering Furnace
The Lucifer High-Temperature Sintering Furnace provides controlled thermal processing of advanced materials at temperatures up to 2200°C, enabling debinding, sintering, annealing, and heat treatment of ceramic, glass, metal, and composite materials for biomedical, aerospace, electronics, and advanced materials research. LEARN MORE
VivTek VBF T1700 V12 Sintering Furnace
The VivTek VBF T1700 V12 Sintering Furnace provides high-temperature thermal processing up to 1700 °C for the densification, sintering, annealing, and heat treatment of advanced materials. Equipped with programmable temperature control and high-temperature heating elements, the furnace supports the processing of ceramics, glasses, powder metallurgy components, nanomaterials, and additively manufactured parts to achieve desired microstructures and material properties. LEARN MORE
Ambrell EASYHEAT 4.2 kW Induction Heating System
The Ambrell EASYHEAT 4.2 kW Induction Heating System at the RIT AMPrint Center uses high-frequency electromagnetic fields to generate localized heating directly within conductive materials, supporting thermal processing, materials synthesis, nanoparticle research, joining operations, and post-processing of advanced manufactured components with precise temperature and process control. LEARN MORE
Wet Chemistry Lab
Labconco Glove Box
The Labconco Glove Box maintains a low-oxygen, low-moisture environment for the preparation, processing, and characterization of sensitive materials, enabling research in advanced materials, printed electronics, energy storage, nanotechnology, and additive manufacturing while preventing contamination and environmental degradation. LEARN MORE
ONiLAB OS20-S Overhead Stirrer
The ONiLAB OS20-S Overhead Stirrer provides controlled mixing of low- to moderate-viscosity liquids, suspensions, and slurries using a digitally controlled overhead stirring system with adjustable speeds from 50–2200 rpm. The instrument supports formulation and processing of nanoparticle inks, ceramic slurries, polymers, coatings, and other advanced manufacturing feedstocks, enabling consistent mixing and dispersion in volumes up to 20 L.
Labconco XStream Fume Hood
The Labconco XStream Fume Hood provides controlled ventilation for laboratory processes involving hazardous chemicals, nanoparticle suspensions, resins, solvents, and other volatile materials, enabling safe materials development, post-processing, and characterization activities in advanced manufacturing and materials research. LEARN MORE
U.S. Solid Sonicator
The U.S. Solid Sonicator applies ultrasonic cavitation to mix, emulsify, disperse, and break apart particles or agglomerates in liquid media, supporting the development and processing of nanoparticle suspensions, functional inks, ceramics, polymers, biomaterials, and other advanced manufacturing feedstocks. LEARN MORE