MIT Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)

麻省理工学院材料研究科学与工程中心（MRSEC）的基本使命是通过跨学科的基础研究、创新的教育推广计划和定向知识转移，开发和理解能够影响当前和未来社会需求的新材料、结构和理论。该中心支持广泛的跨学科研究项目。该研究由三个跨学科研究小组（IRGs）进行。其中包括用于电化学能量存储和转换的纳米材料设计（IRG I），旨在准确建模，预测和确定热力学，相行为和动力学如何在纳米尺度上进行修改，并将利用所得知识来设计具有能量和功率传输能力远远优于现有材料的材料。IRG II机械可变异质材料旨在开发具有可按需改变机械性能的多组分聚合物系统，以用于传感器和生物应用。多材料多功能纳米结构纤维（IRG III）探索了一类新的多组分纳米纤维材料的设计，制造，表征和物理现象，这些材料包含导体，半导体（玻璃和晶体）和绝缘体。此外，还有两个倡议项目：通过纳米材料工程活细胞（倡议I）和受挫和相关材料的新状态（倡议II）。第一个项目旨在发展对功能化聚合物多层如何以保持细胞活力的方式与活细胞集成的基本理解，并允许新的合成工程功能，而第二个项目旨在合成，表征和检查基于二维三角形和kagomogel晶格的新型单晶材料的基本自旋物理。该中心有一个强大的，广泛的教育计划，针对研究生，本科生，初中和高中学生和K-12教师。重点是在这些项目中纳入代表性不足的少数民族。教育活动享有麻省理工学院学生和教师的广泛参与，并与麻省理工学院其他行政单位的补充课程密切相关。该中心运营共享设施，包括1)材料分析设施，2)晶体生长和制备设施，3)电子显微镜设施，以及4)x射线衍射设施。通过与麻省理工学院的工业联络计划和材料加工中心的关系，该中心有一个有效的工业外展计划。

The underlying mission of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will enable - through interdisciplinary fundamental research, innovative educational outreach programs, and directed knowledge transfer - the development and understanding of new materials, structures, and theories that can impact the current and future needs of society. The Center supports a broad-based interdisciplinary research program. The research is conducted in three interdisciplinary research groups (IRGs). These include Design of Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion (IRG I), which seeks to accurately model, predict, and determine how thermodynamics, phase behavior, and kinetics are modified at the nanoscale, and will use the resultant knowledge to design materials with energy and power-delivery capabilities far superior to those currently available. IRG II on Mechanomutable Heteronanomaterials aims to develop multicomponent polymeric systems with mechanical properties that can be changed on-demand for possible use in sensors and biological applications. Multimaterial Multifunctional Nano-Structured Fibers (IRG III) explores the design, fabrication, characterization, and physical phenomena of a new class of multicomponent nanoscale fiber materials containing conductors, semiconductors (glassy and crystalline) and insulators. In addition there are two Initiative Projects: Engineering Living Cells via Nanomaterials (Initiative I) and New States of Frustrated and Correlated Materials (Initiative II). The first initiative seeks to develop a fundamental understanding of how functionalized polymer multilayers can be integrated with living cells in a manner that preserves cell viability, and allows for new synthetically engineered functionality, whereas the second seeks to synthesize, characterize and examine the fundamental spin physics of new, single crystal materials based on a two-dimensional triangular and kagomé lattice. The Center has a strong, wide-ranging education program directed toward graduate students, undergraduates, middle and high school students and K-12 teachers. Emphasis is placed on including underrepresented minorities in these programs. The education activities enjoy the broad participation of MIT students and faculty and are closely linked to complementary programs in other MIT administrative units. The Center operates shared facilities, including 1) a Materials Analysis Facility, 2) a Crystal Growth and Preparation Facility, 3) an Electron Microscopy Facility, and 4) an X-ray Diffraction Facility. The Center has an effective industrial outreach program, facilitated by a relationship with MIT's Industrial Liaison Program and Materials Processing Center.