Chad also continues to work part time as Joint Faculty with the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where he previously was a Senior Research Scientist and Group Leader of the Deposition Science & Technology Group. Dr. Duty’s research focuses on advanced materials and process developments for additive manufacturing, or 3D printing. This work recently led to the commercialization of a large-scale 3D printer for polymer composites called BAAM (for Big Area Additive Manufacturing) as well as the manufacture of the world’s first 3D printed car (the Strati). Chad holds a number of patents and R&D100 Awards for his work in this field and previous research on roll-to-roll manufacturing and solar energy technologies.