AMI's engineering team has extended its unique powder forming technology to cover a wide range of multi-component channeled architectures. AMI's unparalleled components feature:   Flexible designs Custom, intricate architecture Inexpensive manufacturing process Exclusive development contracts Artificial Materials The MFCX technique can be applied to the fabrication of "Artificial Materials" ? structures with unique designed properties like the metallic nickel negative Poisson's ratio architecture shown here. Design compliments of O. Sigmund Fine Scale Fibers Extremely fine scale objects can be fabricated either individually or in plurality. The individual 10 micron alumina fibers shown here were coextruded as an array of 22,500 fibers. Cofired Structures The MFCX process can create objects from multiple materials simultaneously. The part shown here is comprised of 15 microns of PMN-PT ceramic, 5 microns of AgPd metal, and continuous 60 micron air channels. Micro-Channels Micro-channel structures with enhanced surfaces can be constructed for use as heat exchangers, catalytic supports, or wherever high surface area structures with unrestricted flow paths are required. The two example shown here are of an alumina plate with continuous 5 micron channels and a copper part with an engineered internal surface area. Honeycomb Tubes Our components can be molded and shaped prior to firing into almost any 3-D form. The green parts can also be welded together prior to firing to create secondary structures. PZT Composite Intricate shapes can be formed into densely packed arrays to create components with augmented properties. The figures below are of topology optimized PZT ceramic ? air hydrophones. The original composite designs are shown adjacent to the final devices. <-Back