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Advanced Materials

Center

Focus Area

Universities

Year Est.

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

    • 2015

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

    • 2011

    Completed - 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 Rochester
  • University of North Carolina, Charlotte

    • 2013

    Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and System (CEHMS)
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Columbia University
  • Pennsylvania State 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)
  • University of California, Davis
  • Virginia Commonwealth University
  • University of South Carolina

    • 2015

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

    • 2011

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

    • 2009

    Center for Innovations in Structural Integrity Assurance (CISIA)

    2021

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

    • 2014

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

    • 2018

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

    • 2021

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