The Bioinspired Soft Materials Center
The Brandeis Bioinspired Soft Materials Center seeks to create new materials that are constructed from only a few simplified components, yet capture the remarkable functionalities found in living organisms. In addition to opening new directions in materials science research, these efforts will elucidate the minimal requirements for the emergence of biological function.
Harvard Materials Research Center
This MRSEC supports a broad interdisciplinary research program that investigates the mechanical properties of crystalline and glassy materials at scales intermediate between atomistic and continuum, focuses on and exploits microfluidics to develop novel materials, and explores innovative ways to make stimuli-responsive active materials by self-assembly of soft materials.
Center for Materials Science and Engineering
The MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) is devoted to the design, creation, and fundamental understanding of materials that are capable of enhancing the human experience. CMSE has a special mission: to foster collaborative, interdisciplinary research and education in the science and engineering of materials that will address the future needs of society.
NYU Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
The substantial and sustained investment in the sciences at NYU, the founding of NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, and the inaugural MRSEC award in Y2008 have created a dynamic environment for interdisciplinary materials research that is on a steep upward trajectory.
Center for Emergent Materials
The Center for Emergent Materials engages researchers from multiple disciplines to work in teams on scientific problems too complex for a single researcher to solve. The CEM, established in 2008, is located at The Ohio State University and funded by a National Science Foundation MRSEC award.
Princeton Center for Complex Materials
Established in 1994, the Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM) at Princeton University is dedicated to pushing the frontiers of complexity in materials science - bringing together over 30 faculty from six departments in the natural sciences and engineering.
Materials Research Center
The University of Chicago MRSEC has established a highly successful, multidisciplinary approach to issues of technological importance at the forefront of materials research. The overarching goal, common to all of our Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs), is to produce the design principles for the next generation of materials.
Soft Materials Research Center
The Colorado Center advances basic liquid crystal and soft materials science and seeks enhanced capabilities for electro-optic, nonlinear optic, chemical and other applications of liquid crystals. Industrial interaction focuses on fostering of and collaboration with U.S.
UMN Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
This multifaceted MRSEC enables important areas of future technology, ranging from biomedicine, separations, and plastic electronics to security, renewable energy, and information technology. The UMN MRSEC manages an extensive program in education and career development.
UNL Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
The University of Nebraska MRSEC “Polarization and Spin Phenomena in Nanoferroic Structures” (P-SPINS) carries out collaborative research on new magnetic materials and structures at the nanometer scale, with the aim of developing fundamental understanding of their properties and related phenomena.
The Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies (CPIMA) is an NSF sponsored partnership among Stanford University, IBM Almaden Research Center, the University of Calif
The Center investigates the mechanics in thin films and bulk materials through a combination of experimental and computer modeling techniques. The Center has a broad spectrum of educational and outreach programs, including the very successful BrownOut program that brings hands on demonstrations to local K-12 science and math classes.
The Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials (CSEM) at Caltech, established in September of 2000, addresses both research and educational aspects of polymeric, structural, photonic, and ferroelectric materials that will be necessary to solve critical societal needs of the twenty-first century.
The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) is an interdisciplinary research and educational enterprise within Carnegie Mellon University dedicated the understanding, control and optimization of grain boundary dominated materials properties.
Renewable Energy Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Meeting world energy needs is one of the most significant challenges we face in the coming century. The Renewable Energy Materials Research Science and Engineering Center is focused on transformative materials advances and educational directions that significantly impact the emerging renewable energy technologies.
Develop the science and technology of graphene and other electronic materials to permit fabrication of devices and circuits for post-CMOS low power electronics. Integrate the science/technology developed with educational programs, student/teacher training, and industrial needs to ensure availability of the necessary workforce and tech transfer capabilities for future electonic materials and pr
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The Maryland MRSEC carries out nationally recognized fundamental research on surfaces and interfaces of materials with potential impact on the next generation of opto- and nano-electronic devices, and on complex oxides with potential applications in memory, switches, and sensors.
Center for Photonic and Multiscale Nanomaterials
The Center for Photonic and Multiscale Nanomaterials (C-PHOM) is a National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, established in 2011. The center’s research activity is focused on two Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRG’s): wide-bandgap nanostructured materials for quantum light emitters and advanced electromagnetic metamaterials and near-field tools.
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The Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena (CRISP) discovers and develops novel atomically engineered materials and processes across a wide spectrum such as amorphous metals or artificially structured crystalline oxide interfaces.
