Materials Research Laboratory

该奖项是为了再次支持伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校Myron B. Salamon博士指导下的材料研究实验室（MRL）。MRL由来自6个学系的约40名教员组成；研究生55人，博士后7人。研究工作集中在几个主要重点领域的相互作用、多学科研究项目上。MRL还负责管理主要的中心设施，支持大学的材料研究工作，并与校园内的其他单位合作维护一些研究服务设施。与MRL推力区域研究相关的工业和政府实验室有相互作用。计划的研究包括光学半导体和异质结构、先进催化材料、无序材料的亚稳态和动力学以及先进计算材料的研究。这个MRL为交互式研究提供了一个极好的环境。它的中心研究设施是首屈一指的，而且管理有效。最近在校园内建立的主要研究中心补充了材料研究领域，提供了MRL充分认识到的新机会。许多教师在他们自己的研究领域都很出色；他们汇集了一大批强大的人才，以一种强烈的互动方式在材料研究中的一些重要问题上承担责任。建议的预算提供了足够的资源，以支持在光学半导体和异质结构以及先进计算材料研究方面拟议的努力；在先进催化材料领域快速起步；支持无序材料动力学的推力研究；并为新举措提供适当的种子资金。它还为仪器和中央研究设施提供持续有力的支持。

This award is for renewed support of the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) under the direction of Dr. Myron B. Salamon at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The MRL is comprised of about 40 faculty members from six academic departments; 55 graduate students and 7 postdoctoral research associates are also supported. The research effort is concentrated on interactive, multidisciplinary research projects in several major thrust areas. The MRL also operates major central facilities that underpin materials research efforts at the University, and maintains a number of research service facilities in collaboration with other units on campus. There are interactions with industry and government laboratories in relation to MRL thrust area research. The planned research includes major thrust areas in optical semiconductors and heterostructures, advanced catalytic materials, metastability and dynamics of disordered materials, and advanced computational materials research. This MRL provides a superb environment for interactive research. Its central research facilities are second to none and it is effectively managed. The recent establishment on campus of major research centers in fields that complement materials research provides new opportunities that are fully recognized by the MRL. Many of the faculty are outstanding in their own areas of research; together they bring a formidable array of talent to bear in a strongly interactive manner on a number of important problems in materials research. The recommended budget provides adequate resources to support the proposed efforts in optical semiconductors and heterostructures and in advanced computational materials research; to make a rapid start in the area of advanced catalytic materials; to support thrust research in the dynamics of disordered materials; and to provide appropriate seed funding for new initiatives. It also provides for continuing strong support of instrumentation and central research facilities.