Materials Science and Engineering Research Center

康奈尔大学的材料研究科学与工程中心（MRSEC）支持一项广泛的跨学科研究计划，该计划旨在控制纳米尺度上的高级有序和无序材料。这项研究由五个跨学科研究小组进行，并有适当的种子项目。IRG A纳米结构材料：电子和自旋输运将利用独特的纳米结构材料来阐明电子结构具有相当大技术潜力的系统中的电子和自旋输运的基本问题；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上重要的聚合物-无机纳米杂化材料的性能；IRG - C氧化玻璃：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的化学和非和中间长度尺度结构的基本知识；IRG D高能表面加工基础将进一步发展利用新型高能超音速和高温离子束改善薄膜沉积的手段；和IRG E纳米材料的动态力学性能将努力理解和控制能量耗散和纳米机械振荡器的非线性响应，以协助实现新的GHz技术。MRSEC包括针对K-12的全面教育推广计划；本科;研究生;学校教师和公众。它特别强调与农村学区的联系。该中心维护着一套重要的共享实验设施，为整个大学提供最先进的仪器；作为研究生教育和知识转移到工业的中心。中心现有高级研究员44人，博士后8人，研究生41人，本科生20人，技术人员及其他辅助人员18人。尼尔·阿什克罗夫特教授是MRSEC的负责人。

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.