Materials Science and Engineering Research Center

康奈尔大学的材料研究科学与工程中心(MRSEC)支持一项基础广泛的跨学科研究计划，该计划旨在控制纳米级的先进有序和无序材料。这项研究是在五个跨学科研究小组中进行的，并有适当的种子项目。IRG A纳米结构材料：电子和自旋传输将利用独特的纳米结构材料来阐明系统中电子和自旋传输的基本问题，这些系统的电子结构具有相当大的技术潜力；IRG B纳米级聚合物-无机杂化材料将结合合成、物理表征和建模来控制新一代工业重要的聚合物-无机纳米级杂化材料的性能；IRG C氧化物玻璃：表面和薄膜界面将发展对新兴的玻璃薄膜技术至关重要的硅酸盐玻璃表面和关键界面处和附近的化学和非中尺度结构的基础知识；IRG D高能表面处理基础将进一步发展使用新型高能超音速和超热离子束改进薄膜沉积的方法；IRG E纳米材料的动态力学特性将努力了解和控制纳米机械振荡器的能量耗散和非线性响应，以帮助实现新的GHz技术。MRSEC包括针对K-12、本科生、研究生、学校教师和普通公众的全面教育推广计划。它特别强调与农村学区的联系。该中心拥有一套重要的共享实验设施，为整个大学提供最先进的仪器设备；作为研究生教育和向行业转移知识的中心。该中心的参与者包括44名高级调查人员、8名博士后助理、41名研究生、20名本科生和18名技术人员和其他支持人员。

The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at the Cornell University supports a broadly based interdisciplinary research program on control of advanced ordered and disordered materials at the nanoscale. The research is carried out in five interdisciplinary research groups with appropriate seed projects. IRG A Nanostructured Materials: Electron and Spin Transport will exploit uniquely nanostructured materials to elucidate fundamental issues of electron and spin transport in systems whose electronic structure have considerable technological potential; IRG B Nanoscale Polymer-Inorganic Hybrid Materials will combine synthesis, physical characterization, and modeling to control the properties of new generations of industrially important polymer-inorganic nanoscale hybrid materials; IRG C Oxide Glasses: Surfaces and Thin-film Interfaces will develop fundamental knowledge of the chemistry and nono- and intermediate length scale structure at and near the surfaces and key interfaces in silicate glasses crucial to emerging thin-film-on-glass technologies; IRG D Fundamentals of Energetic Surface Processing will develop further the means to improve thin film deposition using novel energetic supersonic and hyperthermal ion beams; and IRG E Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Nanoscale Materials will strive to understand and control energy dissipation and the non-linear response of nano-mechanical oscillators to assist in enabling new GHz technologies. The MRSEC includes a comprehensive educational outreach programs targeting K-12; undergraduate; graduate; school teachers and the general public. It places special emphasis on outreach to rural school districts. The Center maintains a significant set of shared experimental facilities that provide state of the art instrumentation for the entire University; act as a focal point for graduate education and for knowledge transfer to industry. Participants in the Center include 44 senior investigators, 8 postdoctoral associates, 41 graduate students, 20 undergraduates, and 18 technicians and other support personnel.Professor Neil Ashcroft directs the MRSEC.