Materials Research Science and Engineering Center

宾夕法尼亚大学的材料研究科学与工程中心（MRSEC）支持复杂纳米结构和材料的广泛跨学科研究计划。 该研究在四个跨学科研究小组（IRG）中进行，并有适当的种子项目。 IRG功能生物分子材料专注于开发从头蛋白质设计的工程原理，旨在创造新的分子结构，实现天然或新的功能，最终目标是生产选择性功能化的模块化材料和设备。 第二个IRG专注于碳纳米管衍生材料，涉及从单壁纳米管创建的高阶结构的合成，组装和理论。 IRG在微尺度软材料利用理论和实验专业知识来设计和控制具有定制的光学，机械，流变和存储特性的新型微结构胶体系统的自组装。 多功能复合氧化物IRG设计，合成，表征和模拟对外部磁场和电场具有高度敏感响应的新型材料。 教育部还在开发创新的教学方法。 它与波多黎各大学通过一个合作整合研究和教育。 它主办了一个重要的本科生研究经验计划，并启动了一个为教师提供研究经验的计划。 该中心拥有大量的共享实验设施，为整个大学提供最先进的仪器，并作为研究生教育和知识转移到行业的焦点。 参加该中心的人员包括36名高级研究员，12名博士后，29名研究生，15名本科生，5名技术人员和其他支持人员。Michael Klein教授指导MRSEC。

The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at the University of Pennsylvania supports a broadly based interdisciplinary research program on complex nanostructures and materials. The research is carried out in four Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRG) with appropriate seed projects. The IRG on Functional Biomolecular Materials focuses on developing engineering principles for de novo protein design directed towards creation of novel molecular constructs that carry out natural or novel functions with the ultimate goal of producing selectively functionalized modular materials and devices. A second IRG focuses on Carbon Nanotube-Derived Materials and involves the synthesis, assembly and theory of higher-order structures created from single-walled nanotubes. The IRG on Microscale Soft Materials harnesses theoretical and experimental expertise to design and control the self-assembly of new classes of microstructured colloidal systems with tailored optical, mechanical, rheological and storage properties. An IRG of Multifunctional Complex Oxides designs, synthesizes, characterizes and models novel materials that exhibit highly sensitive responses to external magnetic and electrical fields. The MRSEC is also developing innovative methods of instruction. It is linked to the University of Puerto Rico through a Collaborative to Integrate Research and Education. It hosts a significant program for Research Experiences for Undergraduates and it has initiated a program to provide Research Experiences for Teachers. The Center maintains a large set of shared experimental facilities that provide state of the art instrumentation for the entire University, and act as a focal point for graduate education and for knowledge transfer to industry. Participants in the Center include 36 senior investigators, 12 postdoctoral associates, 29 graduate students, 15 undergraduates, and 5 technicians and other support personnel. Professor Michael Klein directs the MRSEC.