Bio
William Carter is a Technical Professional in the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Group at 91°µÍø (ORNL). He received his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2012 where he did research on sensing and control of micro-scale additive manufacturing systems. He joined ORNL in 2014 as a Post-Masters Research Associate and joined as staff in 2017. During his time at ORNL he’s worked on system development and instrumentation for a wide variety of additive manufacturing systems including small to large scale thermoset and thermoplastic systems, powder bed systems, and wire-arc systems. He has five patents for technologies he’s developed at ORNL with more pending, the Ambient Reactive Extrusion technology he developed received an R&D100 award in 2018, and the MedUSA multi-agent wire-arc system he developed received an R&D 100 award in 2024.
Awards
R&D 100 Award, 2018, Ambient Reactive Extrusion Additive Manufacturing
R&D 100 Award, 2024, MedUSA: Large-scale Multi-agent Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing
Trademarks and Patents
US-11708458-B2, Composition for thiolene-based polymerization and liquid crystalline network-containing objects formed therefrom using additive manufacturing, issued 7/25/2023
US-11535912-B2, Structural direct-write additive manufacturing of molten metals, issued 12/27/2022
US-10982105-B2, Methods for reactive three-dimensional printing by extrusion, issued 4/20/2021
US-10694590-B2, Electromagnetic print nozzle for direct-write additive manufacturing, issued 6/23/2020
US-10542589-B2, Electromagnetic print nozzle for direct-write additive manufacturing with resistive renditions, issued 1/21/2020