Princeton Center for Complex Materials

普林斯顿大学材料研究科学与工程中心（MRSEC）支持复杂材料领域的广泛跨学科研究计划，包括聚合物和软材料，电子材料和生物材料。 该中心还支持广泛的教育活动，包括为初中和高中教师提供科学课程支持，为高中学生提供暑期外展计划，以及非洲外展计划。 该中心支持维护良好和无障碍的共享实验设施，并与地方，区域，国家和国际各级的工业和其他部门互动。 该中心的研究分为三个跨学科研究小组（IRG）。 IRG 1，相关电子材料中磁性和传输的相互作用，专注于复杂相关电子材料中的电荷和自旋传输。 引导自组装IRG 2研究了制造具有纳米和微米尺度特征的图案化结构的大规模组件的新方法。 潜在的应用领域是纳米磁学，在纳米尺度上操纵生物分子，以及光子学。 粘附，变形，并在小结构接触运输（IRG 3）是一个全新的努力，重点是在微电子，光子和微机电设备的重要性小规模接触。 两个大型种子项目致力于功能性细胞生物材料的图案化组装，提出将蛋白质设计与合成材料和活细胞之间的新型界面设计联合收割机相结合，以及高介电常数氧化物的异质外延和电子结构。 该中心的参与者目前包括38名高级研究员，7名博士后，24名研究生，以及对本科生和K-12教师的支持。 Ravindra N. Bhatt指挥MRSEC。

The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Princeton University supports a broad based interdisciplinary research program in the area of complex materials, including polymers and soft materials, electronic materials, and biomaterials. The Center also supports a wide range of education activities, including science curriculum support for middle and high school teachers, a summer outreach program for high school students, and an African outreach program. The Center supports well-maintained and accessible shared experimental facilities and interacts with industry and other sectors at local, regional, national and international levels. The Center's research is organized into three interdisciplinary research groups (IRGs). IRG 1, Interplay of Magnetism and Transport in Correlated Electronic Materials, focuses on charge and spin transport in complex, correlated electronic materials. IRG 2 on Guided Self-Assembly investigates new methods for fabricating large-scale assemblies of patterned structures with features on the nano and micrometer scale. Potential applications are in the areas of nanomagnetics, manipulating biomolecules on a nanoscale, as well as photonics. Adhesion, Deformation, and Transport at Contacts in Small Structures (IRG 3) is an entirely new effort with focus on small scale contacts that are of importance in microelectronic, photonic, and micro-electromechanical devices. Two large seed projects are devoted to patterned assemblies of functional cell-based biomaterials, which propose to combine protein design with the design of novel interfaces between synthetic materials and living cells, and to heteroepitaxy and electronic structure of high dielectric constant oxides. Participants in the Center currently include 38 senior investigators, 7 postdoctoral associates, 24 graduate students, and support for undergraduates and K-12 teachers. Professor Ravindra N. Bhatt directs the MRSEC.