Materials Research Laboratory (Materials Research)

布朗大学材料研究实验室支持 主要的多学科研究工作，需要 几个教员持续的合作努力;中心的 这些设施对材料研究很重要 校园工作以及具体的MRL项目;和种子 为有前途的新研究工作提供资金。 该方案涉及 27名教师来自化学，物理和四个领域， 工程，目前还支持27名研究生和 博士后研究助理5名。 MRL计划还 包括与工业界和政府的合作 laboratories. 塑性和断裂的研究致力于解决 在广泛的机械行为中具有根本的重要性 包括金属、合金和陶瓷在内的一类材料 如金属基和陶瓷复合材料。 研究的目标 对玻璃性质的微观基础的理解 玻璃的结构、组成、制备和热性能 历史决定玻璃性质和动力学。 其他研究 解决了薄膜生长发生的原子机制 并修改接口。 这个MRL的科学家和工程师都是非常合格的 进行拟议的研究。 与会者强烈 塑性和断裂相互作用的卓越领域， 解决了技术上的重要问题， 路上了 有足够的设施进行拟议的研究。 支护的塑性和断裂推力将分阶段进行 在两年的时间里，作为对这项研究的支持， 材料研究小组计划分阶段进行。 支持一个 有秩序地逐步取消剩余的最高残留限量， 一年时间，完成当前项目。

The Materials Research Laboratory at Brown University supports major multidisciplinary research efforts that require the sustained, cooperative effort of several faculty members; central facilities that are important for much of the materials research effort on campus as well as specific MRL projects; and seed funding for promising new research efforts. The program involves 27 faculty members from Chemistry, Physics and four areas of Engineering, and also currently supports 27 graduate students and 5 postdoctoral research associates. The MRL program also involves cooperative efforts with industry and government laboratories. Research in plasticity and fracture addresses problems of fundamental importance in the mechanical behavior of a broad class of materials including metals, alloys and ceramics as well as metal-matrix and ceramic composites. The goal of the research on the microscopic basis of glass properties is an understanding of how glass structure, composition, preparation and thermal history determine glass properties and dynamics. Other research addresses the atomic mechanisms by which film growth takes place and an interface is modified. The scientists and engineers in this MRL are very well qualified to carry out the proposed research. There is a strongly interactive area of excellence in plasticity and fracture which addresses technologically important problems in an innovative way. There are adequate facilities for the proposed research. Support for the plasticity and fracture thrust will be phased out over a two-year period as support for this research from the Materials Research Groups program is phased in. Support for an orderly phase-out of the remainder of the MRL is provided for one year so that current projects can be completed.