UR and RIT-led projects among grant recipients to support manufacturing innovation
Projects led by the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology were among 10 projects across the state that received funding from FuzeHub’s Jeff Lawrence Innovation Fund. The Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences at UR, along with its Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Thermal Expansion Solutions, Inc., which does business as ALLVAR, was awarded $50,000 for their work on titanium ALLVAR alloy manufacturing for optomechanical assemblies. The goal of the project is to accelerate adoption of novel ALLVAR alloys by demonstrating they can eliminate the detrimental effects of temperature changes on an optic’s performance. If successful, future applications for the alloys include sensors for autonomous vehicles and fiber-couplers and beam expanders for fiber-optics.