NEWS & EVENTS
- May 27, 2025
Polymer heat exchangers (HXs) are lightweight and cost-effective due to the affordability of raw materials. They also offer excellent resistance to corrosion, making them ideal for use in harsh environments. Advanced polymer 3D printing technologies, such as fused filament fabrication (FFF) or fused deposition modeling (FDM), enable the production of highly customized polymer heat exchangers at lower costs and faster speeds.PolarOnyx has recently advanced the technology by developing composite polymers to improve the thermal conductivity. The results indicate that fillers with larger particle sizes tend to exhibit higher thermal conductivity. A polymer HX based on a Triply Periodic Minimal Surface (TPMS) structure was designed and tested.
A publication can be found from the links of
Design and Fabrication of Heat Exchangers Using Thermally Conductive Polymer Composite - December 1, 2024
Super invar, with its near-zero coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), has a great potential to be used in the design and fabrication of high-precision optical structures, such as optical mirror substrates, brackets and breadboards. In order to reduce the weight and maintain the strength of the optical structures, several biomimetic lattice designs were investigated in PolarOnyx and demonstrated excellent performance.Additive Manufacturing of Biomimetic Near-Zero CTE Optical Structures Additive Manufacturing of Biomimetic Near-Zero CTE Optical Structures
- October 16, 2024
PolarOnyx has successfully developed the highest efficiency thermal management system. This innovation is enabled by triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) structure and 3D printing technology or additive manufacturing (AM) that is impossible for conventional technologies. Several provisional patents and utility patents were filed.Heat exchangers were fabricated in one single AM process and demonstrated to have three times improvement in heat transfer efficiency and size reduction for 20 kW thermal capacity. It eliminates the brazing or welding to improve the life span of the HX system.
A couple of publications can be found from the links of
Design and Additive Manufacturing of TPMS Heat Exchangers Design and Additive Manufacturing of TPMS Heat Exchangers
Optimization of Triply Periodic Minimal Surface Heat Exchanger to Achieve Compactness, High Efficiency, and Low-Pressure Drop Optimization of Triply Periodic Minimal Surface Heat Exchanger to Achieve Compactness, High Efficiency, and Low-Pressure Drop
- August 22, 2023
The innovation "Additively Manufactured Thermally Conductive Collimators for Neutron Instrumentation", developed by PolarOnyx and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), is selected as one of the 2023 R&D 100 Awards: R&D 100 Winners for 2023 are announced - Research & Development World (rdworldonline.com) - February 1, 2023
Engineers in PolarOnyx has made an all-in-one ball bearing by using 316L powders and our AM system. This all-in-one ball bearing resolves challenging issues of support structures, tolerance, and AM patterning. - December 1, 2022
In 2022, PolarOnyx has accomplished several world records in 3D manufacturing. These accomplishments position PolarOnyx as pioneer in a variety of frontier applications.- March 2022, the world’s largest Al/B4C 3D printed collimator (120 mm)
- July 2022, 50GHz RF horn antenna with pulsed laser forming
- October 2022, the largest thin wall (60 µm) regenerator (50 mm)
- August 1, 2022
PolarOnyx has changed normal office operation to Monday through Thursday, 8:30 am to 6:00 pm. This change supports our employee improve their working efficiency and life style. - February 1, 2021
Dr. Shuang Bai will give an invited talk on laser 3D printing of SiC and Refractory Materials at 45th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, February 8-11, 2021. - January 1, 2021
PolarOnyx has moved to new facility in Chapel Hill, NC to further expand the business in 3D manufacturing. This new 60K square feet building provides us with sufficient room to serve our customers and develop super large additive and subtractive manufacturing systems. - December, 2020
PolarOnyx's pulsed fiber laser technology has been recognized by NASA SPINOFF magazine:
Pulsed Laser Innovations Power Nobel-Winners' Research | NASA Spinoff - March 10-14, 2019
PolarOnyx will exhibit its pulsed fiber laser AM technology in upcoming event TMS 2019 at Henry B. González Convention Center, San Antonio, TX.
Dr. Jian Liu will give an invited talk on laser 3D printing of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC). - October 2, 2018
Our long term customer, Dr. Donna Strickland from University of Waterloo was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics" for the "method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses." Back to the year of 2006, she bought her first fs fiber laser from PolarOnyx (now Laser-Femto, Inc.). Amazingly, it is still operating in good condition in her labs. - March 11-15, 2018
PolarOnyx will exhibit its pulsed fiber laser AM technology in upcoming event TMS 2018 at Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, Arizona. - April 21, 2017
One of the key patents on ultrafast pulsed laser 3D printing has been granted by USPTO (9,643,361, Method and Apparatus for Three-Dimensional Additive Manufacturing with a High Energy High Power Ultrafast Laser). This is the first patent granted by USPTO in the field of ultrafast laser based 3D printing or additive manufacturing. - February 1, 2017
In Photonics West, our newly developed fs fiber laser Additive Manufacturing System has been selected as a winner of 2016 Prism Award (Oscar of Photonics), in recognizing our world's leading position in laser additive manufacturing. This system has both features of AM and SM. - November 15, 2016
Our newly developed fs fiber laser Additive Manufacturing System has been selected as a finalist of 2016 Prism Award (Oscar of Photonics), in recognizing our world's leading position in laser additive manufacturing. The final winner will be announced on February 1st, 2017 during Photonics West. - November 3, 2016
PolarOnyx is selected as one of the 2016 R&D 100 award winners for the development of the world's first Tungsten Laser Additive Manufacturing (3D printing) System using femtosecond laser. This R&D 100 award is the best recognition of our pioneering work, passion, persistency, and innovation for the last four years.
R&D Magazine has announced the Winners of the 54th annual R&D 100 Awards, an international competition that recognizes the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year, at the R&D 100 Awards Ceremony held in November 3, 2016 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center. The R&D 100 Awards recognize excellence across a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, optics, high-energy physics, materials science, chemistry, and biotechnology.
R&D 100 Award recipients include established Fortune 500 companies and federally funded research institutions, as well as academic and government labs. The awards not only recognize the efforts of the development team and partners, they provide a mark of excellence known to industry, government and consumers.
The full list of 2016 R&D 100 Award Winners is available here: www.rd100conference.com/awards/winners-finalists/year/2016/
- August 1, 2016
PolarOnyx's fs laser based 3D manufacturing has been recognized and selected as R&D 100 Finalist. The prestigious "Oscars of Invention" honors the latest and best innovations and identify the top technology products of the past year. Since 1963, the R&D 100 Awards have identified revolutionary technologies introduced to the market! This year's R&D 100 Winners will be announced at the annual black-tie awards dinner on Nov. 3 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Oxon Hill, Maryland (Washington, D.C.). - January 20, 2016
In the upcoming Photonics West, held in San Francisco, CA, February 15-18, 2015, PolarOnyx will give an invited talk on femtosecond fiber laser based 3D manufacturing: SPIE 9738-24, Femtosecond Fiber Laser Additive Manufacturing of Tungsten.
PolarOnyx has achieved breakthrough in achieving 99% density with femtosecond fiber laser. Moreover, pulsed ultrafast fiber laser provides an unprecedented feature in manipulating microstructure and grain size for 3D manufacturing. - March 29, 2015
Dr. Bai Nie, PolarOnyx's Sr. Application Engineer, ranked 2nd in Modesto Marathon 2015 with 2hr37min40s. - January 16, 2015
In the upcoming Photonics West, held in San Francisco, CA, February 7-12, 2015, PolarOnyx will give an invited talk on femtosecond fiber laser based 3D printing: SPIE 9353-9, Femtosecond Fiber Laser Welding and Additive Manufacturing for 3D Manufacturing -
October 8, 2014
This year's Nobel prize winner, Professor W. E. Moerner of Stanford University, is our customer. We sold a femtosecond fiber laser to him in 2006. The laser is still running well in his lab. We are very proud to support his research.
