H. K. BIRNBAUM, Director
202 Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, 104 S. Goodwin Ave.,
Urbana, IL 61801-2985 · 217-333-1370
The Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) supports materials research in cooperation with the faculty and students of the departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. MRL also operates major central facilities for materials research. These include instrumentation for the characterization of the structure and microchemistry of materials, for synthesis and preparation of a wide spectrum of materials and single crystals, for the growth of thin films, multilayers, and artificially tailored materials by MBE, CBE, MOCVD, and other methods. Other major facilities are computer, laser, and cryogenic centers. MRL supports a large number of smaller specialized facilities also. Under construction are two beamline sectors of the Advanced Photon Source, a synchrotron based x-ray source located at Argonne National Laboratory.
MRL welcomes use of its facilities by researchers at the University of Illinois, other universities, National Laboratories, and industry.
MRL focuses its efforts on interdisciplinary research and operates programs supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. It has four programs: metals and ceramics (DOE), solid-state sciences (DOE), Materials Research Laboratory (NSF), and the Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity (NSF). Within these programs, major research areas are superconductivity, electronic and transport properties of solids, catalysis, interfaces and properties of modulated structures, organic and polymeric materials, semiconductor physics, theory and computational methods for materials, radiation effects, synthesis and properties of ceramics, lattice defects and deformation and fracture of solids, and mesoscopic materials. These programs and others develop from faculty research initiatives within the structure of the Materials Research Laboratory.
Faculty associated with MRL are listed below. Research projects conducted in the College of Engineering are described in the respective departmental sections.
Department of Chemical Engineering
R. C. Alkire
H. G. Drickamer
R. I. Masel
A. J. McHugh
E. G. Seebauer
C. F. Zukoski
Department of Chemistry
P. W. Bohn
S. E. Denmark
H. G. Drickamer
A. A. Gewirth
G. S. Girolami
W. G. Klemperer
J. S. Moore
E. Oldfield
T. B. Rauchfuss
J. R. Shapley
K. S. Suslick
A. Wieckowski
P. G. Wolynes
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
I. Adesida
J. J. Coleman
N. Holonyak, Jr.
K. C. Hsieh
H. Morko;alc
G. E. Stillman
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
J. Adams
R. S. Averback
H. K. Birnbaum
D. Cahill
H. H. Chen
G. Ehrlich
P. H. Geil
J. M. Gibson
S. Granick
J. E. Greene
J. Lewis
R. Nuzzo
D. A. Payne
I. M. Robertson
A. A. Rockett
K. Schweizer
S. I. Stupp
D. Viehland
A. Zangvil
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
D. F. Socie
Department of Nuclear Engineering
J. F. Stubbins
Department of Physics
Y-C. Chang
T-C. Chiang
H. G. Drickamer
C. P. Flynn
E. H. Fradkin
R. Giannetta
D. M. Ginsberg
P. M. Goldbart
N. Goldenfeld
L. Greene
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A. J. Leggett
R. M. Martin
J. Mochel
Y. Oono
D. Pines
I. Robinson
M. B. Salamon
R. O. Simmons
C. P. Slichter
A. Sokol
D. J. Van Harlingen
M. B. Weissman
J. P. Wolfe
Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
P. Sofronis