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Advanced Materials

Center

Focus Area

Universities

Year Est.

Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings (ATOMIC)
  • Boise State University
  • Rice University
  • Pennsylvania State University

    • 2015

    Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloy (CANFSA)
  • Iowa State University
  • Colorado School of Mines

    • 2011

    Ceramic, Composite, and Optical Materials Center (CCOMC)
  • Clemson University
  • Rutgers University

    • 2010

    Center for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics (CDP)
  • North Carolina State University
  • Pennsylvania State University

    • 2014

    Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO)
  • University of North Carolina, Charlotte
  • University of Rochester

    • 2013

    Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and System (CEHMS)
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Columbia University

    • 2010

    Center for Solid-State Electric Power Storage (CEPS)
  • Syracuse University
  • South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
  • Northeastern University

    • 2022

    Center for Rational Catalyst Synthesis (CeRCaS)
  • Virginia Commonwealth University
  • University of South Carolina
  • University of California, Davis

    • 2015

    Center for Metamaterials (CfM)
  • Clarkson University
  • University of North Carolina, Charlotte

    • 2011

    Center for the Integration of Composites Into Infrastructure (CICI)
  • Texas A&M University
  • West Virginia University
  • North Carolina State University
  • University of Miami

    • 2009

    Center for Innovations in Structural Integrity Assurance (CISIA)
  • Louisiana Tech University
  • Louisiana State University

    • 2021

    Center for Novel High Voltage/Temperature Materials and Structures (HVT)
  • University of Connecticut
  • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • University of Denver

    • 2014

    Center for Science of Heterogenous Additive Printing of 3D Materials (SHAP3D)
  • University of Massachusetts, Lowell
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • University of Connecticut

    • 2018

    Center for a Solar Powered Future (SPF2050)
  • Texas A&M University
  • Arizona State University
  • Colorado State University
  • Texas A&M University, Central Texas
  • University of Texas, Austin

    • 2021

    Wood-Based Composites Center (WBC)
  • Oregon State University
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

    • 2010

    Freeform Enables Compact Spectrometer Designs

    2D raytrace of the five-mirror freeform viewfinder design superimposed on a 3D model of the system housing.

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    Catalyzing Commercialization: Two-Dimensional Materials for Versatile Biosensing

    As modern medicine becomes more personalized and less centralized, the need for scalable and tunable platforms for next-generation point-of-care biosensors remains an ongoing research objective. One promising technology for point-of-care analysis is electrochemical sensors, which are portable, ultrasensitive, and inexpensive. Electrochemical sensors are compatible with integrated circuit technology, enabling integration of sensors with the necessary electronic circuitry for data acquisition, processing, and transfer.

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    Catalyzing Commercialization: Novel Concrete Wall Panels Lower a Building’s Energy Footprint

    About 20% of total energy consumption in the U.S. is used for the heating and cooling of buildings using conventional sources like fossil fuels. While standard thermal insulation, with its low thermal conductivity, can help mitigate heating/cooling loss, researchers have sought to incorporate thermal storage capacity within the building envelope to better control the temperature variations across building walls.

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