About Us

The Johns Hopkins Center for Additive Manufacturing and Architected Materials (JAM²) brings together faculty, staff, students, and post-docs from across Johns Hopkins to conduct cross-cutting research in design, manufacturing, characterization and applications of additive manufacturing and architected materials.

Our Goal

Our goal is to revolutionize material performance for a broad array of engineering applications, including automotive, aviation, defense, energy, healthcare, medicine, and space. The emergence of additive manufacturing has ushered in exciting new possibilities for the fabrication of materials and components with unique shapes and internal architectures. Empowering scientists and engineers with the ability to design and control the internal architecture of a material allows them to create materials with optimized properties far superior to those made by traditional methods. JAM² researchers are at the fore-front of this new frontier in materials development.

Focus Areas

Advanced Aerospace

Biomedical Implants

Design Optimization

Energy Applications

Manufacturing Technology

Multifunctional Materials and Structures

Materials Characterization

Why AM²?

Additive manufacturing offers tremendous opportunities across a broad range of applications and length scales. This includes additively manufactured components and devices, and researchers at JAM² are highly active and interested in driving the optimization and adoption of additive manufacturing at these scales. We also see tremendous opportunities in using additive manufacturing to create architected materials, and offer unique experience and expertise spanning manufacturing, modeling, design and characterization in this domain. We therefore are interested in Additive Manufacturing, Architected Materials, and Additive Manufacturing of Architected Materials. Our name JAM² reflects these interests.

Initial thrust areas at JAM² include the development of:

Lightweight materials and components for aircraft and spacecraft
Materials for use in pediatric cardiovascular devices, as well as enhanced bone and tissue scaffolds
Ultra-efficient heat exchangers and self-adaptive energy harvesting devices
Fundamental, multi-scale investigation of 3-D printed polymers
Multifunctional load-bearing structures for thermal management and vibration damping

Collaboration

JAM² researchers are building interdisciplinary collaborations to promote the science, understanding, and integration of additive manufacturing and architected materials. They are establishing federal laboratory and industry partnerships, enabling collaborations that will ensure industrial relevance, promote workforce development, and place Johns Hopkins students as leaders of this exciting new technology.