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We are pleased to announce that the 2026 conference on Additive Manufacturing and Advanced Materials in Fusion (AM2F), hosted by the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (MIT-PSFC) will take place in Cambridge, Massachusetts located in the MIT-PSFC building NW17 Room 218, (175 Albany St, Cambridge MA). AM2F focuses on Additive Manufacturing (AM) and advanced materials in fusion power and associated fields (including high-heat flux, vacuum, and Radio-Frequency (RF) components).
We fill a gap in existing conference scopes; several conferences address fusion engineering and technology (SOFE/TOFE/etc...) while others focus on AM, we seek one that focuses specifically on how AM, advanced manufacturing techniques, and associated materials development intersect with the fusion reactor environment. The intended audience is the fusion community and non-fusion fields with similar engineering requirements that do not traditionally attend fusion conferences. We aim to promote AM and other advanced fabrication techniques within the fusion community, explore currently available and forthcoming methods, and promote collaboration between groups within the fusion field and those outside it.
Monday, April 6, 2026: Abstract Submission open
Monday, May 15, 2026: Registration open
Monday, July 13, 2026: Abstracts Due
Monday, Aug 24, 2026: Registration Closes
AM2F 2026 Topics
Additive Manufacturing:
Additive manufacturing through 3D printing, vacuum plasma spray / cold spray, electroplating, or addition of coatings to surfaces
Additive Manufacturing through any method including L-PBF/SLM, wire-fed, electron beam melting, binder jetting and sintering, etc…
Vacuum plasma spray, cold spray techniques, PACVD/CVD, or sputtering coatings
Electroplating and electroforming/electrodeposition
Applications of non-metallic AM including FDM and SLA
Advanced Materials:
New alloys, composites, and ceramics, that relate broadly to an “additive” process (including brazing/bonding of first wall surfaces). The production methods, joining techniques, and analysis of these materials, and effects of their interaction with high temperatures, high heat flux, and neutron exposure.
Developed a new metal alloy, composite, or ceramic with applications to fusion power
Existing materials that could be adapted to an AM process
Adding a coating onto a plasma facing (or other) component through VPS/cold spray, plating, sputtering, PACVD, CVD, etc…
Processing or joining of these new materials, including heat treatments/HIPing, surface refinement, smoothing, machining, cutting, brazing, or welding
Analysis of material strength, physical properties, or reaction to the reactor environment
Scope of non-fusion work with “substantially similar operating characteristics”
We encourage the presentation of work with substantial overlap with the operating requirements of components in fusion power, these requirements may include one or more of the following:
AM of RF structures, RF accelerators, antennas, rocket engines, or heat exchangers
AM of refractory materials (molybdenum, tungsten, etc…) and ceramics
Post-processing AMed parts including HIPing and surface smoothing
Functionally graded materials and joining metal to ceramic components
Materials exposed to high heat fluxes or high operating temperature
Structures with internal cooling channels
Structures operating in high vacuum
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