The innovation engine for new materials

One of the top five materials research facilities in the world

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Widely recognized as one of the top five materials research facilities in the world, the MRL serves as the innovation engine for discoveries in new materials. The facility is home to a scientific and engineering community that creates new collective knowledge and fosters the next generation of scientific leaders. By enabling modern technological advances, the high-impact research conducted at the MRL and its affiliated centers has enormous societal impact, and is shaping the future of technology, the environment, and medicine.

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Please join us in congratulating Allison Chau for being selected to join an exclusive group of around 600 graduate students from all around the world to attend the 72nd...
Professor Megan Valentine's Soft Matter article “High-throughput microscopy to determine morphology, microrheology, and phase boundaries applied to phase separating...

Support for this program is provided by the National Science Foundation, Division of
Materials Research under the Materials Research Science & Engineering Centers Program DMR 1720256

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