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
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
T. B. Rauchfuss
A. Scheeline
K. S. Suslick
A. Wieckowski
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Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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
A. Pearlstein
Department of Physics
T-C. Chiang
H. G. Drickamer
C. P. Flynn
D. M. Ginsberg
P. M. Goldbart
L. Greene
M. V. Klein
A. J. Leggett
R. M. Martin
J. Mochel
D. Pines
I. Robinson
M. B. Salamon
R. O. Simmons
C. P. Slichter
D. J. Van Harlingen
J. P. Wolfe
Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
K. J. Hsia
P. Sofronis