MRSECs

2023

Center for Advanced Materials & Manufacturing

CAMM at UT Knoxville, focuses on the exploration, discovery, and design of new materials with properties of critical societal importance for energy, transport, and security advancements.

Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials

This MRSEC brings together researchers from across science and engineering to create materials with new atomic-scale structures and functionalities, and to develop approaches for actively controlling and reconfiguring materials in real time.

Center for Materials Innovation

The Center for Materials Innovation establishes a transformative campus-wide eco-system to accelerate the design, discovery, and deployment of novel materials critical for the Industries of Tomorrow.

Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center

I-MRSEC has a mission to perform fundamental, innovative research that supports technological applications in areas of societal need, while promoting interdisciplinary materials-focused education and training of students.

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at UCSB

The NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at UC Santa Barbara develops and sustains a productive, collaborative, and engaged community that drives a portfolio of transformative materials research and empowers a diverse workforce.

Northwestern Materials Research Science and Engineering Center

NU-MRSEC advances world-class materials research, education, and outreach via active interdisciplinary collaborations within the Center and with external partners in academia, industry, national laboratories, and museums, both domestically and abroad.

UPENN Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers

The LRSM at UPENN is a center of excellence for materials research and education. It facilitates collaboration between researchers from different disciplines ? physics, chemistry, engineering, and biology ? to advance transformative scientific projects and solve societal challenges.

University of Washington Molecular Engineering Materials Center

The University of Washington Molecular Engineering Materials Center, an NSF MRSEC, executes fundamental materials research that aims to push the frontiers of science and accelerate the emergence of future advanced technologies.

Wisconsin Materials Research Science and Engineering Center

The NSF-sponsored Wisconsin Materials Research Science and Engineering Center brings together teams of researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to tackle grand challenges in the materials science of liquids and glasses and non-equilibrium magnetism.

2020

Center for Complex and Active Materials

The primary mission of he MRSEC at UCI is to establish foundational knowledge in materials science and engineering of new classes of materials offering unique and broad functionality via an interplay among design, simulation, synthesis, and advanced characterization.

Center for Emergent Materials

The Center for Emergent Materials (CEM) performs innovative multidisciplinary science focused on discovery and engineering of emergent materials to enable novel phenomena and phases.

Center for Hybrid, Active, and Responsive Materials

UD CHARM advances foundational understanding of new materials driven by theoretical and computational predictions paired with cutting-edge experiments to enable the integration of unconventional, ultra-small, building blocks.

Center for Nanoscale Science

The center supports collaborative, interdisciplinary research efforts on nanoscale materials. Principal research activities are organized into two interdisciplinary research groups:  2D Polar Metals & Heterostructures and Crystalline Oxides with High Entropy. 

Center for Precision Assembled Quantum Materials (PAQM)

PAQM encompasses two IRGs that build higher dimensional materials from lower dimensional structures to create the next generation of quantum, optoelectronic, and energy transport materials.

Harvard Materials Research Center

The Harvard MRSEC focuses on unraveling complex phenomena in soft materials with the goal of translating these advances to benefit society.

Princeton Center for Complex Materials

Established in 1994, the Princeton Center for Complex Materials is dedicated to exploring the frontiers of complexity in materials science. The Center supports two IRGs that will accelerate exploration of quantum technologies and biology-inspired materials. 

The Bioinspired Soft Materials Center

The Brandeis Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) seeks to create new materials that are constructed from only a few simplified components, yet capture the remarkable functionalities found in living organisms.

UC San Diego MRSEC

The UC San Diego Materials Research Science and Engineering Center fosters research, education, and outreach across the disciplines of engineering, physical sciences, and biological sciences, with a focus on new materials and new materials properties.

UChicago Materials Research Center

The UChicago MRSEC pioneers frameworks for materials discovery, focusing on trainable soft materials, activated architectured materials with dynamic transport properties, and quantum transduction for integrated circuits.

UMN Materials Research Science and Engineering Center

This multifaceted MRSEC enables important areas of future technology, ranging from applications of electrical control over materials to scale-invariant shape-filling amphiphile network self-assembly. It manages an extensive program in education and career development.