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Illinois MRSEC Explores the Speed of Next Generation Logic and Memory Devices

Researchers say fundamental time scales of magnetization dynamics in these materials are thought be two orders of magnitude faster than in ferromagnets.

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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

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Columbia University MRSEC Collaboration Wins National Geographic Award

Winners AlgiKnit awarded first-place in the Sustainable Planet category

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NSF Announces New Awards for Materials Science and Engineering Centers

Program funds cutting-edge, collaborative research in materials science

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A Collective Collaboration

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

Credit: UNL

Recent Program Highlights

Mechanisms of Mechanical Plasticity in Collagen Networks from Contractile Forces

A collaboration (Wells, Shenoy) in IRG 2 studied the mechanisms of mechanical plasticity in collagen networks resulting from contractile forces pr

Structural Chemo-Mechanics of Fibrous Networks / Broader Impacts

As part of our commitment to outreach, two students working with David Chenoweth in this IRG  (Alexander Kasznal and Samuel Melton) are involved in Spark mentoring programs.

Plasmonic Optical and Chiral Optical Responses of Self-Assembled Gold Nanorod Equilateral Trimers

The groups of Kagan, Murray, and Engheta in IRG3 teamed up to (a) synthesize gold (Au) nanorods (length of ~110 nm, diameter of ~

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