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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

Credit: UPenn

Columbia University MRSEC Collaboration Wins National Geographic Award

Winners AlgiKnit awarded first-place in the Sustainable Planet category

Courtesy of Columbia University MRSEC

NSF Announces New Awards for Materials Science and Engineering Centers

Program funds cutting-edge, collaborative research in materials science

Credit: CyberHades

A Collective Collaboration

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

Credit: UNL

Recent Program Highlights

Middle School Summer Program: Girard College and Pennsylvania School for the Deaf

Since 2011, 7th grade students from Girard College have spent one week on campus at the LRSM.

Universal Signatures of Plasticity in a Wide Range of Disordered Solids

The groups of nine faculty in IRG 1 (Arratia, Carpick, Durian, Fakhraai, Lee, Riggleman

Quantum control of surface acoustic wave phonons

The University of Chicago MRSEC has used super-conducting circuits and piezo-electricity to manipulate single phonons in a surface acoustic wave resonator (SAW).

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