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NSF Announces MRSEC Competition Results

The Class of 2020 will have 11 MRSECs including the University of Delaware, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego.

Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

Shared Instrumentation Facilities

Benefiting researchers and universities, and sustaining research excellence

Courtesy of UCSB

DMR Seeks Program Director for Condensed Matter Physics Program

Applicants must be familiar with a broad spectrum of the materials research community, as well as with the issues being addressed in the field.

Credit: National Science Foundation

Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets

Researchers at the University of Illinois recently determined how much energy it takes to bend multilayer graphene – a question that has eluded scientists since graphene was first isolated.

Graphic courtesy Blanka Janicek, Pinshane Huang Lab

I-MRSEC’s Musical Magnetism Curriculum Uses Hip Hop to Teach Science

In the process students learned about the value of science communication.

Image courtesy of Pamela Pena-Martin

Strength in Numbers

How NSF's Materials Research Facilities Network helps bolster the field of materials science and engineering.

Credit: Tony Mastres/UCSB

Understanding Glassy Materials

Penn Researchers Establish Universal Signature Fundamental to How Glassy Materials Fail

Credit: UPenn

A Collective Collaboration

How NSF’s decades-long materials science program has fostered partnerships across scientific fields.

Credit: UNL

Recent Program Highlights

Tiny Robots with Giant Potential (TED Talk)

Take a trip down the microworld as roboticists Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin explain how they design and mass-produce microrobots the size of a single cell, powered by atomically thin legs -- and show how these machines could one day be "piloted" to battle crop diseases or study your brain at the level of individual neurons.

NYU-MRSEC & BioBus Collaboration

NYU-MRSEC investigators have worked alongside BioBus scientists to develop new K-12 materials science-related curricula since 2009. This collaboration brought exciting and educational engineering projects to over 1,000 NYC students in 2019-2020.

Manipulating Solid Forms of Contact Insecticides for Infectious Disease Prevention

MRSEC investigators rediscovered DFDT and found that amorphous and crystalline forms of DFDT and a mono-fluorinated chiral congener, MFDT were more active against Anopheles and Aedes mosquitoes, the former the disease vector for malaria and the latter for Zika, yellow fever, dengue, and chikungunya.

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